Episimus utilis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Tortricidae
- Genus
- Episimus
- Species
- Episimus utilis
- Scientific Name
- Episimus utilis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Episimus utilis
Episimus utilis is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was first described by Elwood Zimmerman in 1978. It is native to Brazil, but has been introduced to Hawaii in 1954 to aid in the control of Christmas berry or Brazilian peppertree.
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Sibling Taxa
- Episimus albifrons
- Episimus alcedanus
- Episimus antiguanus
- Episimus argutana
- Episimus armiferus
- Episimus augmentana
- Episimus aurobasis
- Episimus caveatus
- Episimus chica
- Episimus coleus
- Episimus curacaoanus
- Episimus cyanitis
- Episimus dominicanus
- Episimus exiguus
- Episimus guiana
- Episimus kimballi
- Episimus lagunculariae
- Episimus lavirgenanus
- Episimus macropterus
- Episimus moderabilis
- Episimus nesoites
- Episimus ortygia
- Episimus paraisanus
- Episimus parencausticus
- Episimus pitillae
- Episimus queposanus
- Episimus rufatus
- Episimus rufotegulus
- Episimus sanjoseanus
- Episimus selenosema
- Episimus semicirculanus
- Episimus transferrana
- Episimus tyrius
- Episimus unguiculus
- Episimus utilis
- Episimus varablancanus
- Episimus vermiculatus
- Episimus vixenus
- Episimus zunigae