Leucinodes

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Leucinodes orbonalis.jpg

| taxon = Leucinodes

| authority = Guenée, 1854{{cite web |website=www.pyraloidea.org |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fPages%2fReports%2fTaxonomyReport.aspx |title=Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ) |last1=Nuss |first1=Matthias |last2=Landry |first2=Bernard |last3=Mally |first3=Richard |last4=Vegliante |first4=Francesca |last5=Tränkner |first5=Andreas |last6=Bauer |first6=Franziska |last7=Hayden |first7=James |last8=Segerer |first8=Andreas |last9=Schouten |first9=Rob |last10=Li |first10=Houhun |last11=Trofimova |first11=Tatiana |last12=Solis |first12=M. Alma |author-link12=Maria Alma Solis |last13=De Prins |first13=Jurate |last14=Speidel |first14=Wolfgang |date=2003–2020 |access-date=2020-04-07 |language=en }}

| synonyms =

  • Sceliodes Guenée, 1854
  • Daraba Walker, 1859
  • Eretria Snellen, 1880
  • Leuctinodes South, 1897 (misspelling)

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Leucinodes is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1854.

Leucinodes species have been documented as eggplant fruit borers.{{cite journal | last1 = Aina | first1 = John Olu | year = 1984 | title = The biology of Daraba laisalis (Wlk) formerly called Sceliodes laisalis (Wlk) (Pyralidae, Lepidoptera), an egg fruit borer | journal = Insect Science and Its Application | volume = 5 | issue = 6| pages = 513–520 | doi=10.1017/s1742758400004963| s2cid = 86289532 }}El Shafie, Hamadttu Abdel Farag. (2001). "The use of neem products for sustainable management of homopterous key pests on potato and eggplant in the Sudan." Ph.D. Diss. Justus Liebig University of Giessen. {{cite web |url=http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=962904511&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=962904511.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-01-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324233418/http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=962904511&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=962904511.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-24 }}Kristensen, Niels P. (1999). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Walter de Gruyter. 250. They are occasionally imported by accident from African and Asian countries to North America and Europe and pose medium threats to Solanaceae crops.US Dept. of Agriculture. (2007). "Importation of Eggplant, Solanum melongena, from Ghana into the Entire United States, Including All Territories." p. i.[http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=090000648026a16f]

Species

File:Leucinodes orbonalis2.jpg, imago]]

File:Leucinodes orbonalis (Brinjal Fruit Borer).jpg, caterpillar feeding in an eggplant fruit]]

Former species

Taxonomy

Hyperanalyta Strand, 1918 was formerly treated as a synonym of Leucinodes, but was found to be a synonym of Analyta Lederer, 1863.{{cite journal |last1=Mally |first1=Richard |last2=Korycinska |first2=Anastasia |last3=Agassiz |first3=David J. L. |last4=Hall |first4=Jayne |last5=Hodgetts |first5=Jennifer |last6=Nuss |first6=Matthias |date=2015 |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/4535/list/9/ |title=Discovery of an unknown diversity of Leucinodes species damaging Solanaceae fruits in sub-Saharan Africa and moving in trade (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea) |journal=ZooKeys |issue=472 |pages=117–162 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.472.8781|pmc=4304033 |pmid=25632252|doi-access=free }}

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Category:Spilomelinae

Category:Crambidae genera

Category:Taxa named by Achille Guenée

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