Crocidosema plebejana ZELLER, 1847

Bippus, Maik, 2016, New or poorly known Microlepidoptera from the Mascarenes (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae, Bedellidae, Batrachedridae, Carposinidae, Epermeniidae, Gelechiidae, Tineidae, Tortricidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (2), pp. 347-370 : 368

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.2.347-370.1910

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CA46282A-EE13-0972-D709-14E2FC4204AC

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scientific name

Crocidosema plebejana ZELLER, 1847
status

 

Crocidosema plebejana ZELLER, 1847 View in CoL

Wingspan: 12–13 mm; adult (plate 13: fig. 64); female genitalia (plate 13: fig. 66).

This small species is common at light in Réunion. One female was bred from larvae on 07-xi-2015 from Sida rhombifolia L. ( Malvaceae ). Locality: Réunion, La Possession, alt. 400 m.

Other specimens were collected at light at the same locality on 20-x-2014, 02-v-2016 and 13-v-2016.

I also found this species in Mauritius at light in Flic-en- Flac , 12-vi-2016 .

Distribution: Cosmopolitan in tropical regions, incl. Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, new record for La Réunion.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Tortricidae

Genus

Crocidosema

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