Nanaguna breviuscula
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{{Taxobox
| name = Pigeonpea pod borer
| image = Nanaguna breviuscula.jpg
| image2 = Nanaguna breviuscula1.jpg
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Nolidae
| genus = Nanaguna
| species = N. breviuscula
| binomial = Nanaguna breviuscula
| binomial_authority = Walker, 1863{{LepIndex |id=275065.0 |accessdate=26 November 2012}}{{cite book|last=Walker|first=Francis |title=List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera|url=https://archive.org/details/listspecimensle08graygoog |accessdate=26 November 2012|year=1863|publisher=Trustees, British Museum|page=[https://archive.org/details/listspecimensle08graygoog/page/n98 85]}}
| synonyms =
- Clettharra valida Walker, 1863
- Bagistana rudis Walker, 1864
- Thrypticodes xyloglypta Lucas, 1890
- Symitha nigridisca Hampson, 1891
- Clettharra floccifera Hampson, 1894
- Etanna breviuscula (Walker, 1863)
- Nanaguna breviuscula uniformis Strand, 1917
- Nanaguna breviuscula variegatana Strand, 1917
- Nanaguna breviuscula discoidalis Strand, 1917
- Nanaguna breviuscula mediomaculata Strand, 1917
- Nanaguna breviuscula tenebrata Strand, 1917
- Nanaguna breviuscula dorsofascia Strand, 1917
- Nanaguna teleoleuca Prout, 1922
}}
Nanaguna breviuscula, the pigeonpea pod borer,{{cite web |last1=Herbison-Evans |first1=Don |last2=Crossley |first2=Stella |name-list-style=amp |date=21 October 2014 |url=http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/sarr/breviuscula.html |title=Nanaguna breviuscula Walker, 1863 Pigeonpea Pod Borer |website=Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths |accessdate=20 January 2019}} is a moth species of the family Nolidae. It is found from Sri Lanka and India east to Samoa. In Australia it is found in the Kimberleys in Western Australia, the northern part of the Northern Territory and from the Torres Strait Islands and Queensland to Sydney in New South Wales.
Description
The wingspan is about 20–24 mm. Forewing with vein 10 stalked with veins 7,8 and 9. Hindwings with veins 3,4 stalked. Head, thorax and abdomen pale brown. Forewings pale red brown. There is an oblique black and streak runs from costa near base to above centre of inner margin. A waved antemedial pale line, and a postmedial line angled outwards beyond the cell can be seen. Inner area greyish from the base to the postmedial line. The apical area suffused with white and three black costal striae runs before the apex. Two black streaks above outer angle, which is suffused with black and white. Hindwings white, and slightly suffused with fuscous outer margin.{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |volume=Moths - Vol. II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
It is a minor pest, where the larvae feed on a wide range of plants, including Grevillea glauca, Desmodium species and the flowers of Mangifera indica.{{cite web | url=http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Nanaguna-breviuscula.php | title=Nanaguna breviuscula Walker |website=Insects in Indian Agroecosystems | publisher=ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources | accessdate=8 August 2016}}
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706122117/http://environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Nanaguna_breviuscula Australian Faunal Directory]
- [http://dspace.icrisat.ac.in/dspace/bitstream/123456789/1867/1/ICPN-7%2860%292000.pdf Seasonal Incidence of New Pigeonpea Pod Borer Species, Nanaguna breviuscula Walker on Genotypes of Pigeonpea]{{Dead link |date=January 2019}}
- [https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20013005180 Seasonal incidence of new Pigeonpea Pod Borer species, Nanaguna breviuscula Walker on genotypes of Pigeonpea]{{Dead link |date=January 2019}}
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Category:Moths described in 1863
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