Cryptoblabes adoceta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Cryptoblabes
- Species
- Cryptoblabes adoceta
- Scientific Name
- Cryptoblabes adoceta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cryptoblabes adoceta
Cryptoblabes adoceta, the sorghum head moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Cryptoblabes. It was described by Turner in 1904 and is found in the Northern Territory, Queensland in Australia and in Hawaii (Maui).
The wingspan is about 15 mm.
The larvae feed on Sorghum bicolor, feeding from within the seed heads of their host plant.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Cryptoblabes adoceta
- Cryptoblabes albocostalis
- Cryptoblabes amphicharis
- Cryptoblabes angustipennella
- Cryptoblabes angustipennis
- Cryptoblabes aphidivora
- Cryptoblabes bataka
- Cryptoblabes bistriga
- Cryptoblabes euraphella
- Cryptoblabes gnidiella
- Cryptoblabes hemigypsa
- Cryptoblabes loxiella
- Cryptoblabes miserabilis
- Cryptoblabes plagioleuca
- Cryptoblabes proleucella








