Blastobasis inana

Blastobasis inana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Blastobasidae
Genus: Blastobasis
Species:
B. inana
Binomial name
Blastobasis inana
(Butler, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Gracilaria inana Butler, 1881
  • Lateantenna inana (Butler, 1881)
  • Blastobasis explorata Meyrick, 1918

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.

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]

  • 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

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