Blastobasis inana
Species of moth in genus Blastobasis
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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.
| 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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Larvae have been recorded feeding on garden beans, coffee berries, dead sugarcane Citrus species and Dioscorea species.
Distribution
It is known to occur in Hawaii, New Britain, French Polynesia, India, Japan, Réunion,[1] Thailand, China and Papua New Guinea.[2]
External links
- 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
