Crocidosema lantana Busck, 1910

Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, Catalogue of Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4757 (1), pp. 1-95 : 44

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4757.1.1
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:533697FB-99C8-4FBD-9E69-3E7071625A0C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3807242
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787FC-FFC2-FFE9-E3A1-FC9EFBA927C7
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Crocidosema lantana Busck, 1910
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233. Crocidosema lantana Busck, 1910 View in CoL

Crocidosema lantana Busck, 1910 View in CoL ; Proc. ent . Soc. Wash. 10: 132.

= Epinotia corynetes Diakonoff, 1982 View in CoL ; Zool. Verh. Leiden 193: 59.

TL: Oahu, Tantalus [Hawaiian Islands] ( lantana ); Sri Lanka, Ratnapura District, Uggalkaltota ( corynetes ).

Distribution: India (Uttarakhand). Described from Hawaii based on specimens introduced from Mexico for the biological control of weedy Lantana , Crocidosema lantana subsequently was introduced to Australia. Based on DNA barcodes, it is now present in Australia, Caroline Islands, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan ( Zhang & Li 2005; Koçak & Kemal 2012); it is also recorded from southern U.S.A.

Hosts: Larvae have been reported to feed on Lantana camara (Verbenaceae) , Litchi chinensis (Sapindaceae) , Tabebuia chrysantha (Bignoniaceae) , and Tecoma stans (Bignoniaceae) ( Busck 1910; MacKay 1959; Common 1957; Zimmerman 1978).

Illustrations: Adult and gentalia ( Clarke 1976: 52; Rose & Pooni 2005: 1757).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
SubOrder	Glossata
InfraOrder	Heteroneura
SuperFamily	Tortricoidea
Family	Tortricidae
SubFamily	Olethreutinae
Tribe	Eucosmini
Genus	Crocidosema