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Phodoryctis caerulea

Synonyms: Acrocercops caerulea; Cyphosticha caerulea; Phodoryctis centrometra

Wikipedia Abstract

Phodoryctis caerulea is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from India (Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Bihar), Malaysia (Sabah), Indonesia (Java), Sri Lanka, Fiji, Guam, the Solomon Islands, Japan (Kyūshū, the Ryukyu Islands) and Taiwan, as well as Tanzania. The wingspan is 6–8 mm.
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Prey / Diet

Carissa carandas (karanda)[1]
Cissampelos pareira (pareira brava)[1]
Dioscorea deltoidea (Yam)[1]
Stephania japonica (Snake Vine)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Acrocercops thrylodes1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0