Parapoynx fluctuosalis

Parapoynx fluctuosalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Parapoynx
Species: P. fluctuosalis
Binomial name
Parapoynx fluctuosalis
(Meyrick, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Nymphula fluctuosalis Zeller, 1852
  • Paraponyx fluctuosalis
  • Parapoynx linealis Guenee, 1854
  • Oligostigma curta Butler, 1879
  • Oligostigma chrysippusalis Walker, 1859
  • Oligostigma obitalis Walker, 1859
  • Nymphula luteivittalis Mabille, 1880
  • Paraponyx cryzalis Wood-Mason, 1885
  • Paraponyx oryzalis Wood-Mason, 1885
  • Paraponyx rugosalis Möschler, 1890
  • Nymphula circealis Walker, 1859[1]

Parapoynx fluctuosalis is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is a widespread species, known from Africa, India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Guam, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and the Galapagos Islands. It is also an introduced species in Europe, where it has been recorded from Great Britain, the Iberian Peninsula and Sardinia.

Adults are sexually dimorphic, with a variable colouration of the wings.[2]

The larvae feed on various grasses growing in water, including Nymphaea species and rice. The larvae are aquatic and form a case of leaf fragments. They live about the bases of their host plants and have occasionally been found on waterlily leaves. Young larvae have a pair of long hairs on the dorsum of the terminal segment and there are also some sparse shorter hairs. Later on, it acquires fine filamentous gills enclosing air tubes that join the longitudinal tracheal trunks. The pupa is formed within a case or cocoon.

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References

  1. ↑ Agassiz, D.J.L., 2012: The Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) of Africa. Zootaxa 3494: 1–73. Abstract: .
  2. ↑ Landry, B. & L. Roque-Albelo, 2006, The Acentropinae and Musotiminae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador Zootaxa 1354: 45-56.
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