Sphingomorpha
| Sphingomorpha | |
|---|---|
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| Sphingomorpha chlorea, a fruit-sucking species, Pretoria, South Africa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Erebinae |
| Genus: | Sphingomorpha Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852 |
Sphingomorpha is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family. Some species, such as Sphingomorpha chlorea, are notorious pests in orchards, and are known as fruitsucking or fruit-piercing moths.[1]
Species include:[2]
- Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer, 1777) (Africa / Asia)
- Sphingomorpha hemia Guenée, 1852 (from Indonesia)
- Sphingomorpha marshalli Hampson, 1902 (from Zimbabwe)
References
- ↑ Walter Reuther (1989). The Citrus Industry: Crop protection, postharvest technology, and early history of citrus research in California. UCANR Publications. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-0-931876-87-5.
- ↑ Sphingomorpha. lepidoptera.pro
- afromoths
- Ankita Gupta & Smetacek, P., 2011. A new larval host record for Sphingomorpha chlorea (Cramer) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Karnataka, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(2): 1553-1554
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