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Parapoynx fluctuosalis

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Parapoynx fluctuosalis

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Parapoynx

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Butterflies and moths

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Parapoynx, Parapoynx diminutalis, Parapoynx stagnalis, Butterflies and moths, Paracymoriza vagalis

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.

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.

Subspecies

  • Parapoynx fluctuosalis fluctuosalis (Africa)
  • Parapoynx fluctuosalis linealis GuenĂ©e, 1854 (Asia)
  • References

    Parapoynx fluctuosalis Wikipedia


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