Epiphyas postvittana (Walker)

Gilligan, Todd M., Brown, John W. & Hoddle, Mark S., 2011, A new avocado pest in Central America (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) with a key to Lepidoptera larvae threatening avocados in California, Zootaxa 3137, pp. 31-45 : 40

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.204440

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5673998

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D4287B1-FF82-FFA5-FF53-F8D9A92EFF54

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Epiphyas postvittana (Walker)
status

 

Epiphyas postvittana (Walker) View in CoL ( Tortricidae : Tortricinae )

The light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana , native to Australia, was discovered in California in 2006 (Brown et al. 2010). Larvae are highly polyphagous, having been recorded on over 500 species of plants, including avocado (Brown et al. 2010). Although not yet recorded on avocado in California (M. Epstein, pers. comm.), larvae can cause economic damage by webbing leaves to fruit or feeding on the surface of fruit (Brown et al. 2010).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Tortricidae

Genus

Epiphyas

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