Biology:Cometaster pyrula
From HandWiki
| Faint owl moth | |
|---|---|
| |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | |
| Phylum: | |
| Class: | |
| Order: | |
| Superfamily: | |
| Family: | |
| Subfamily: | |
| Tribe: | |
| Genus: | |
| Species: | C. pyrula
|
| Binomial name | |
| Cometaster pyrula (Hopffer, 1857)[1]
| |
| Synonyms | |
| |
Cometaster pyrula, commonly known as the Faint owl moth or Ying-yang moth, is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is monotypic in its genus and endemic to Africa.[2]
Distribution
It is found in Eastern and Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa , Zambia and Zimbabwe.[3]
Biological control agent
In October 2004, and as part of a biological control project, larvae of this moth from South Africa were released in Queensland, Australia , in order to keep under control the type of acacia Acacia nilotica subsp. indica, a major invasive species in the Mitchell Grass Downs.[4]
References
- ↑ African Moths; Cometaster pyrula, (Hopffer, 1857)
- ↑ "Genus details: Cometaster". Natural History Museum. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=6849.0. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
- ↑ African Moths; Cometaster pyrula, (Hopffer, 1857)
- ↑ Rangaswamy Muniappan, Gadi V. P. Reddy & Anantanarayanan Raman (eds.), Biological Control of Tropical Weeds Using Arthropods, Cambridge University Press 2009, pg. 26
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q13474592 entry
 |
