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Species Neomusotima conspurcatalis - Lygodium Defoliator Moth - Hodges#4896.5

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)
Family Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)
Subfamily Musotiminae
Genus Neomusotima
Species conspurcatalis (Lygodium Defoliator Moth - Hodges#4896.5)
Hodges Number
4896.5
Other Common Names
Brown Lygodium Moth
Remarks
Introduced to FL in 2008 as biological control agent for the Old World, or Asian, Climbing Fern, Lygodium microphyllum.
Internet References
USDA

Lygodium microphyllum

Laboratory host range testing of Neomusotima conspurcatalis
(Lepidoptera: Crambidae) - a potential biological control agent of the
invasive weed, Old World climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum
(Lygodiaceae)

Establishment of an imported natural enemy, Neomusotima conspurcatalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) against an invasive weed, Old World climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum, in Florida

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Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 9 September, 2010 - 4:10pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 18 April, 2011 - 10:16am

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