Phricanthes flexilineana
| Phricanthes flexilineana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Phricanthes |
| Species: | P. flexilineana |
| Binomial name | |
| Phricanthes flexilineana (Walker, 1863)[1] | |
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Phricanthes flexilineana is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. The species was described from Sri Lanka, northern Queensland in Australia and the Seychelles, but has a much wider range, which includes Madagascar, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, New Guinea, the Philippines[2] and Taiwan. It is also widely distributed in the tropical parts of North and South America.[3]
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Tetracera volubilis and Davilla nitia.[4]
References
- ↑ tortricidae.com
- ↑ Afro Moths
- ↑ Razowski, J. & V.O. Becker, 2011: Systematic and faunistic data on Neotropical Tortricidae: Phricanthini, Tortricini, Atteriini, Polyorthini, Chlidanotini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologia 39 (154): 161-181.
- ↑ Confirmation of the Old World species Phricanthles flexilineana (Walker, 1863) in the New World tropics (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Phricanthini)
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