Cadarena

Cadarena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Tribe:	Margaroniini
Genus:	Cadarena; Moore, 1886
Species:	C. pudoraria
Binomial name
	Cadarena pudoraria; (Hübner, 1825)
Synonyms
	Generic; Cadarina; Idalia Hübner, 1825; Idalia Hübner, 1819; Specific; Idalia pudoraria Hübner, 1825; Phalaena Geometra marginata Stoll in Cramer & Stoll, 1782; Botys marginalis Guenée, 1854; Phalaena sinuata Fabricius, 1781;

Cadarena is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1886.^[1] Its only species, Cadarena pudoraria, was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It occurs throughout tropical and subtropical Africa and in India.^[2]

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The adults of this species have a wingspan of around 40 millimetres (1.6 in).

A known larval food plants are of the genera Gossypium and Adenia and the species Sida rhombifolia.^[2]^[3]

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