Pycnarmon cribrata

Pycnarmon cribrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Pycnarmon
Species: P. cribrata
Binomial name
Pycnarmon cribrata
(Fabricius, 1794)[1]
Synonyms
  • Conchylodes corycialis Snellen, 1880
  • Conchylodes privalis (Snellen, 1901)
  • Entephria caberalis Guenée, 1854
  • Phalaena cribrata Fabricius, 1794
  • Pyralocymatophora frenulalis Strand, 1918
  • Zebronia abdicalis Walker, 1859

Pycnarmon cribrata is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is known from Kenya, Zambia, Sierra Leone, South Africa[2] Malawi, Mozambique, Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Known hostplants of the larvae of this species are: Embelia robusta, Ocimum sanctum, Plectranthus parviflorus, Salvia coccinea, Solenstemon blumei and Vitex sp.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Fabricius, 1793. Entomologica systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. - — 3(1):i–iv, 1–487.
  2. ↑ afromoths.net
  3. ↑ Africanmoths.com


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