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| Grape Boring Plume Moth PTEROPHORINAE, PTEROPHORIDAE, PTEROPHORIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Debbie Matthews & Stella Crossley |
This Caterpillar is pale green or pink with dark line along the back. The species is a pest on :
The caterpillar tunnels into the grapes to eat the seed. One caterpillar can damage several grapes.
The moths are brown and white. They have a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.
The eggs are laid singly on the stems of the grapes.
The species occurs in
and also occurs in
Further reading:
Edward Meyrick,
Indian Micro-Lepidoptera,
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society,
Volume 17 (1906), p. 135.
T. V. Subramaniam,
Bionomics of a Grape Boring Plume Moth (Oxyptilus regulus, Meyr.) in South India,
Bulletin of Entomological Research,
Volume 30, Issue 4 (January 1940), pp. 471-473.
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(updated 4 June 2003)