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| Blastobasis inana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Blastobasidae |
| Genus: | Blastobasis |
| Species: | B. inana |
| Binomial name | |
| Blastobasis inana (Butler, 1881) | |
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Blastobasis inana is a moth of the family Blastobasidae. It was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881 from Hawaii, but it is a widely dispersed species whose distribution includes India, New Britain and French Polynesia.
Larvae have been recorded feeding on garden beans, coffee berries, dead sugarcane Citrus species and Dioscorea species.
Distribution
[edit]It is known to occur in Hawaii, New Britain, French Polynesia, India, Japan, Réunion,[1] Thailand, China and Papua New Guinea.[2]
External links
[edit]- Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1978). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 9 Microlepidoptera. The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7338.
- Butler, 1881. On a collection of nocturnal Lepidoptera from the Hawaiian Islands.
- afromoths.net
References
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