| Bean Pod Borer | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Maruca |
| Species: | M. vitrata |
| Binomial name | |
| Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787) |
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Maruca vitrata is a Pantropical insect pest of leguminous crops like pigeon pea, cowpea, mung bean and soybean. Its common names include the Maruca pod borer, Bean pod borer, Soybean pod borer, Mung moth, and the legume pod borer.
Its feeding sites on plants are flower-buds, flowers and young pods (in some cases early instars feed on flower peduncles and young stems).