Sclerocona

Sclerocona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Sclerocona
Meyrick, 1890[1]
Species: S. acutella
Binomial name
Sclerocona acutella
(Eversmann, 1842)
Synonyms
  • Chilo acutella Eversmann, 1842
  • Sclerocona acutellus
  • Crambus sinensellus Walker, 1863
  • Crambus tincticostellus Walker, 1863
  • Duponchelia cilialis Herrich-Schäffer, 1849

Sclerocona is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family. It contains only one species, Sclerocona acutella, which is found from Spain and Sicily north to Great Britain and Denmark and east to Siberia, Japan and China. It is an introduced species in eastern North America.[2]

The wingspan is 25–28 mm.[3] Adults are light brown.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Zea, Lycopersicon, Humulus, Phragmites and Phaseolus species.

References

  1. ↑ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  2. ↑ Sclerocona acutella (Eversmann) (Crambidae) Naturalised along the eastern seaboard
  3. ↑ microlepidoptera.nl


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