Conocramboides
Genus of moths
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Conocramboides is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1970. Its only species, Conocramboides seychellellus, described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1910, is found in the Seychelles, Réunion and in Mauritius.[4]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Crambinae |
| Tribe: | Crambini |
| Genus: | Conocramboides Błeszyński, 1970[1][2] |
| Species: | C. seychellellus |
| Binomial name | |
| Conocramboides seychellellus (T. B. Fletcher, 1910) | |
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Subspecies
- Conocramboides seychellellus seychellellus from Seychelles
- Conocramboides seychellellus emmerezellus (de Joannis, 1915) from La Réunion and Mauritius
Ecology
Food plants of the larvae of this species are Poaceae (Cynodon dactylon, Axonopus compressus, Digitaria didactyla, Zoysia matrella and Cynodon dactylon)[5][6]
