Strepsicrates rhothia

Strepsicrates rhothia is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1910.[2][3] It is found in Taiwan, Sri Lanka,[4] India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Mauritius and South Africa.[5]

Strepsicrates rhothia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Strepsicrates
Species:
S. rhothia
Binomial name
Strepsicrates rhothia
(Meyrick, 1910)[1]
Synonyms
  • Spilonota rhothia Meyrick, 1910
  • Spilonota rhotia Viette, 1951

Larval food plants

The caterpillar is a pest on several economically important plant crops of several families.[6][7]

References

  1. Tortricid.net
  2. "Strepsicrates". Tortricid.net. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  3. "Species Details: Strepsicrates rhothia Meyrick, 1910". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  4. Catalogue of Eucosmini from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
  5. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Strepsicrates rhothia (Meyrick, 1910)". Afromoths. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  6. Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 193: 1–124 via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
  7. "HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants". The Natural History Museum. Retrieved 28 June 2018.


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