Aphomia sabella

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Aphomia sabella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Aphomia
Species:
A. sabella
Binomial name
Aphomia sabella
Hampson in Ragonot, 1901 [1]
Synonyms
  • Arenipses sabellaHampson in Ragonot, 1901

Aphomia sabella, the greater date moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Aphomia . It was described by George Hampson in 1901 and is known from the Persian Gulf, [1] Algeria and Iran. [2] It was first recorded in Spain in 1999. [3]

Pyralidae Family of moths

The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralidae as a subfamily, making the combined group one of the largest families in the Lepidoptera. The latest review by Eugene G. Munroe & Solis, in Kristensen (1999) retains the Crambidae as a full family of Pyraloidea.

<i>Aphomia</i> genus of insects

Aphomia is a genus of small moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. Some breed in the nests of Anthophila, where their caterpillars are parasitic feeders of wax, honey and pollen.

Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.

The wingspan is about 34 mm for males and 40 mm for females. [4]

Wingspan distance from the tip of one limb such as an arm or wing to the tip of the paired limb, or analogically the same measure for airplane wings

The wingspan of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777-200 has a wingspan of 60.93 metres, and a wandering albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of 3.63 metres, the official record for a living bird. The term wingspan, more technically extent, is also used for other winged animals such as pterosaurs, bats, insects, etc., and other fixed-wing aircraft such as ornithopters. In humans, the term wingspan also refers to the arm span, which is distance between the length from one end of an individual's arms to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90º angle. Former professional basketball player Manute Bol stands at 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) and owns one of the largest wingspans at 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m).

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Phoenix dactylifera . [5]

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Rice moth species of insect

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References

  1. 1 2 Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2011). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Arenipses sabella Hampson, 1901". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ Asselbergs, J. E. F. (1999): Arenipses sabella Hampson, 1901, from South Spain: new to the European fauna; Thylacoptila paurosema Meyrick, 1885, new to the fauna of the Canary Islands; Ancylosis (Ancylosis) albidella Ragonot, 1888, new to the Spanish fauna (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Galleriinae, Phycitinae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 27 (105)
  4. ↑ Lepiforum e.V.
  5. ↑ Pests of the Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) Archived October 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine


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