Leucinodes laisalis | |
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Female, brownish form | |
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Female, grey form | |
Scientific 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 | |
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]
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]
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]
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Leucinodes is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1854.
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Leucinodes rimavallis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in Burundi, eastern and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. The species was described by Richard Mally, Anastasia Korycinska, David J. L. Agassiz, Jayne Hall, Jennifer Hodgetts and Matthias Nuss in 2015.
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