Biology:Hypsopygia nigrivitta
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Short description: Species of moth
| Hypsopygia nigrivitta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Hypsopygia |
| Species: | H. nigrivitta
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| Binomial name | |
| Hypsopygia nigrivitta (Walker, 1863) [1]
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Hypsopygia nigrivitta is a species of snout moth in the genus Hypsopygia.[2] It was described by Francis Walker in 1863.[3] It is found in Australia [2] and south-east Asia, including Borneo, Sulawesi, Java and Malaysia.
The larvae are considered a nuisance since they have the habit of spinning a silken burrow beneath and between two pieces of thatch to which it retreats when not feeding. Usually each thatch strip is occupied by a single larva. As the infested thatch deteriorates with much damage from feeding, a new piece of thatch has to be inserted from time to time.[4]
References
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Herculia nigrivitta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=16703.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Savela, Markku. "Herculia nigrivitta (Walker, 1863)". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pyraloidea/pyralidae/pyralinae/herculia/#nigrivitta.
- ↑ Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. p. 125. https://archive.org/details/listspecimensle08graygoog. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ↑ Cheng, FY (1963). "Deterioration of thatch roofs by moth larvae after house spraying in the course of a malaria eradication programme in North Borneo". Bulletin of the World Health Organization 28 (1): 136–7. PMID 14020537.
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