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Crocidosema plebejana (Zeller, 1847)

Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, Catalogue of Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4757 (1), pp. 1-95 : 44

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 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4757.1.1

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 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:533697FB-99C8-4FBD-9E69-3E7071625A0C

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3807240

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scientific name

 Crocidosema plebejana (Zeller, 1847)
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234. Crocidosema plebejana (Zeller, 1847) View in CoL

Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847 View in CoL ; Isis von Oken (Leipzig) 1847 (10): 721.

TL: USA, New York, Syracuse .

Distribution: India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Uttarakhand); cosmopolitan: Asia Minor; Australia; Cyprus; Denmark; Egypt; France; Galapagos; Germany; Iran; Italy (Sicily); Japan; Northern Africa; North America ( USA); South America ( Peru, Ecuador); Spain; Taiwan; and Thailand ( Heinrich 1923; Clarke 1976; Zhang & Li 2005).

Hosts: Larvae have been reported to feed on Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae) , Abelmoschus esculentus , Abutilon bidentatum , Alcea rosea , Malva parviflora , Malvastrum spicatum (all Malvaceae ), Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) , and Crataegus (Rosaceae) ( Heinrich 1923; MacKay 1959; Clarke 1976; Bishop & Blood 1978; Bradley et al. 1979; Common 1990; McQuillan 1992; Hamilton & Zalucki 1993; Mensah et al. 2012).

Illustrations: Adult and genitalia ( Clarke 1958: 319, 1976: 47; Rose & Pooni 2005: 1756; Ganai & Khan 2017: 689).

Clarke, J. F. G. (1958) Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Mus. (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 3. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 600 pp.

Clarke, J. F. G. (1976) Microlepidoptera: Tortricoidea. Insects of Micronesia, 9 (1), 1 - 144.

Common, I. F. B. (1990) Moths of Australia. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 535 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / 9780643101227

Ganai, M. & Khan, Z. (2017) Diversity of Tortricid Moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Kashmir division, Jammu & Kashmir, India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 5 (4), 678 - 692.

Hamilton, J. G. & Zalucki, M. P. (1993) Interactions between a specialist herbivore, Crocidosema plebejana, and its host plants Malva parviflora and cotton, Gossypium hisutum: oviposition preference. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 66 (3), 207 - 212. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1570 - 7458.1993. tb 00711. x

Heinrich, C. (1923) Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae. United States National Museum Bulletin, 123, 1 - 298.

MacKay, M. R. (1959) Larvae of the North American Olethreutidae (Lepidoptera). Canadian Entomologist, 91 (Supplement 10), 5 - 338. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / entm 9110 fv

McQuillan, P. B. (1992) A checklist of the Tasmanian tortricid moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and their host-plant relationships. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 126, 77 - 89. https: // doi. org / 10.26749 / rstpp. 126.77

Mensah, R. K., Vodouhe, D. S. I., Sanfilippo, D. & Assogba, S. C. G. (2012) Increasing organic cotton production in Benin West Africa with a supplementary food spray product to manage pests and beneficial insects. International Journal of Pest Management, 58, 53 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 09670874.2011.645905

Pooni, H. S. & Rose, H. S. (2005) Anathamna neospermatophaga sp. nov. (Enarmoniini: Olethreutinae: Tortricidae) from western Himalaya, India. Entomon, 30, 237 - 241.

Zhang, A. - H. & Li, H. - H. (2005) Catalogue of Eucosmini from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia, 33, 265 - 298.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SubOrder

Glossata

InfraOrder

Heteroneura

SuperFamily

Tortricoidea

Family

Tortricidae

SubFamily

Olethreutinae

Tribe

Eucosmini

Genus

Crocidosema

Specimens