Cadarena

Cadarena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Cadarena
Moore, 1886[1]
Species: C. pudoraria
Binomial name
Cadarena pudoraria
(Hübner, 1825)
Synonyms
  • Cadarina
  • Idalia Hübner, 1825
  • Idalia pudoraria Hübner, 1825
  • Phalaena Geometra marginata Stoll in Cramer & Stoll, 1782
  • Botys marginalis Guenée, 1854
  • Phalaena sinuata Fabricius, 1781

Cadarena is a monotypic genus of moths of the Crambidae family. The only species of this genus is Cadarena pudoraria.

This species occurs throughout of tropical and subtropical Africa and in India.[2] The adults of this species have a wingspan of around 40 millimetres (1.6 in).

A known larval foodplant is Adenia sp..[3]

References

  1. ↑ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
  2. ↑ afromoths.net
  3. ↑ Africanmoths: distribution map for Africa & pictures


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