Exelastis phlyctaenias
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| Exelastis phlyctaenias | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Exelastis |
| Species: | E. phlyctaenias
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| Binomial name | |
| Exelastis phlyctaenias (Meyrick, 1911)
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Exelastis phlyctaenias is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from the Virgin Islands, the islands of Luzon and Palawan in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Kenya[1] and India (Coorg),[2] Burundi, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, La Réunion, Mauritius, Madagascar, Malawi and South Africa.[3]
The wingspan is 15–16 mm. Adults are on wing in October on the Virgin Islands.
Larvae have been recorded on Anacardium occidentale[4] (Cashew tree) (Anacardiaceae) and Cajanus indicus (Fabaceae).
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Wikispecies has information related to Exelastis phlyctaenias.
- Meyrick, E. 1911f. Descriptions of Indian Microlepidoptera. - Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 21:104–106.
- ^ Review of the Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) from the Philippines
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