Leucinodes laisalis
Female, brownish form
Female, grey form
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Leucinodes
Species:
L. laisalis
Binomial name
Leucinodes laisalis
(Walker, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Megaphysa laisalis Walker, 1859
  • Sceliodes laisalis
  • Daraba laisalis
  • Daraba idmonealis Walker, 1859
  • Hyamia subterminalis Walker, 1866
  • Leucinodes translucidalis Gaede, 1917[1]
  • Sceliodes translucidalis

Leucinodes laisalis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae.

The wingspan is 20–34 mm.[2] Females are somewhat larger. The forewing ground colour ranges from orange to grey brown.[3]

Early-instar larva
Late-instar larva
Pupa

Distribution

It is mainly distributed in Africa, where it is known Côte d’Ivoire, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania.[4] It has also been recorded from Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom, which probably do not represent native occurrences of the species but rather unintended introductions along with imports of tomatoes and other Solanaceae, the species' host plants.[3][5][6]

Larval food plants

The larvae exclusively feed on the fruits of Solanaceae. Their recorded host plants are Solanum anguivi, Solanum incanum, Solanum linnaeanum, Solanum macrocarpon, Solanum melongena, Lycopersicon esculentum and Capsicum annuum.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Gaede, Max (1917). "Neue Lepidopteren des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. I. Aethiopische Pyralididen". Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin (in German). 8 (3): 387–401.
  2. ↑ UKMoths
  3. 1 2 Mally, Richard; Korycinska, Anastasia; Agassiz, David J. L.; Hall, Jayne; Hodgetts, Jennifer; Nuss, Matthias (2015). "Discovery of an unknown diversity of Leucinodes species damaging Solanaceae fruits in sub-Saharan Africa and moving in trade (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea)". ZooKeys (472): 117–162. doi:10.3897/zookeys.472.8781. PMC 4304033. PMID 25632252.
  4. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Leucinodes laisalis (Walker, 1859)". Afromoths. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
  5. ↑ Speidel, Wolfgang (1996). "Pyraloidea (part)". In Karsholt, Ole; Razowski, Józef (eds.). The Lepidoptera of Europe. A distributional checklist. Apollo Books, Stenstrup. pp. 166–183, 187–196, 319–327. ISBN 9788788757019.
  6. ↑ Huertas Dionisio, M. (2000). "Immature states of Lepidoptera (XIII). Three species of tropical origin of the subfamily Pyraustinae Meyrick, 1890: (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae)". Shilap. Revista de Lepidopterologia. 28 (111): 321–334.
  7. ↑ Hayden, James E.; Lee, Sangmi; Passoa, Steven C.; Young, James; Landry, Jean-François; Nazari, Vazrick; Mally, Richard; Somma, Louis A.; Ahlmark, Kurt M. (2013). "Digital Identification of Microlepidoptera on Solanaceae". USDA-APHIS-PPQ Identification Technology Program (ITP), Fort Collins, CO, USA. Retrieved 2019-11-25.


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