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