Mesophleps adustipennis

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Mesophleps adustipennis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Mesophleps
Species:
M. adustipennis
Binomial name
Mesophleps adustipennis
(Walsingham, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Lathontogenus adustipennisWalsingham, 1897
  • Lipatia crotalariellaBusck, 1910

Mesophleps adustipennis, the soybean webworm moth, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the western and southern parts of the United States (California, Texas, Mississippi and Florida), Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, the West Indies (the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Guana, St Thomas, St Croix, Anguilla, Dominica, Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad), Venezuela, Ecuador (Galapagos Islands), Peru, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, São Paulo).

The wingspan is 7.5–18 mm. The forewings are greyish white to yellowish brown, the distal three-fifths of the costa lined with a dark brown stripe, interrupted by an oblique pale line running from the distal fifth towards the termen.

The larvae feed on Cajanus cajan , Crotalaria , Acacia farnesiana and Pithecellobium pallens . They live in the pods and feed on the seeds. Pupation takes place in a silken cocoon within the pods. On the Galapagos Islands the species has been reared from the fruits of Prosopis juliflora and from Leucaena leucocephala . [1]

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Mesophleps coffeae is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Timor.

Mesophleps aspina is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Thailand and Burma.

Mesophleps truncatella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Australia and Vanuatu.

Mesophleps undulatella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea.

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References

  1. ↑ Li, H.-h. & K. Sattler, 2012: A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa3373: 1-82.


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