Phricanthes flexilineana

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Phricanthes flexilineana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Phricanthes
Species:
P. flexilineana
Binomial name
Phricanthes flexilineana
(Walker, 1863) [1]
Synonyms
  • Sciaphila flexilineanaWalker, 1863
  • Phricanthes macrouraLower, 1908
  • Australacleris memorabilisDiakonoff, 1970

Phricanthes flexilineana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863. [2] The species was described from Sri Lanka, [3] northern Queensland in Australia and the Seychelles, but has a much wider range, which includes Madagascar, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, New Guinea, the Philippines [4] and Taiwan. It is also widely distributed in the tropical parts of North and South America. [5]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Tetracera volubilis , Dillenia indica [6] and Davilla nitia . [7]

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<i>Chiasmia normata</i> Species of moth

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References

  1. ↑ Tortricidae.com
  2. ↑ "Species Details: Phlebozemia flexilineana Walker, 1863". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 – via Academia.
  4. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Phricanthes flexilineana (Walker, 1863)". Afromoths. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  5. ↑ Razowski, J. & V.O. Becker, 2011: Systematic and faunistic data on Neotropical Tortricidae: Phricanthini, Tortricini, Atteriini, Polyorthini, Chlidanotini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología39 (154): 161-181.
  6. ↑ Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 193: 1–124 – via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
  7. ↑ Confirmation of the Old World species Phricanthles flexilineana (Walker, 1863) in the New World tropics (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Phricanthini)


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