''Glyphodes caesalis'' is a
moth in the family
Crambidae. It was described by
Francis Walker in 1859. It is found in
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
, mainland
India,
Myanmar
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, the
Andaman Islands
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,
New Guinea,
Bangladesh,
Fiji
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,
Hong Kong,
Thailand and
Australia
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(
Queensland).
The larvae feed on a range of Moraceae including ''Artocarpus rigida'', ''Ficus carica'', ''Artocarpus elastica'' and ''Artocarpus heterophyllus''. It is sometimes called the jackfruit shoot and fruit borer. The species was sometimes placed in the genus ''
Diaphania
''Diaphania'' is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Species
*'' Diaphania adelalis'' (Dognin, 1905)
*'' Diaphania albianalis'' (Hampson, 1918)
*'' Diaphania albicincta'' (Hampson, 1899)
*'' Diaphania albifascialis'' (Hampson, 1912)
*'' ...
'' which is however a genus with more species in the Neotropics and feeding mainly on host plants in the Cucurbitaceae.
References
Moths described in 1859
Glyphodes
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