Mesophleps adustipennis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Mesophleps
- Species
- Mesophleps adustipennis
- Scientific Name
- Mesophleps adustipennis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mesophleps adustipennis
Mesophleps adustipennis, the soybean webworm moth, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the western and southern parts of the United States (California, Texas, Mississippi and Florida), Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, the West Indies (the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Guana, St Thomas, St Croix, Anguilla, Dominica, Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad), Venezuela, Ecuador (Galapagos Islands), Peru, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, São Paulo).
The wingspan is 7.5–18 mm.
The larvae feed on Cajanus cajan, Crotalaria, Acacia farnesiana and Pithecellobium pallens.
...Mesophleps adustipennis in languages:
- English
- Soybean Webworm Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Mesophleps acutunca
- Mesophleps adustipennis
- Mesophleps albilinella
- Mesophleps apentheta
- Mesophleps argonota
- Mesophleps aspina
- Mesophleps bifidella
- Mesophleps catericta
- Mesophleps chloranthes
- Mesophleps coffeae
- Mesophleps corsicella
- Mesophleps crocina
- Mesophleps cycnobathra
- Mesophleps epiochra
- Mesophleps geodes
- Mesophleps gigantella
- Mesophleps ioloncha
- Mesophleps lala
- Mesophleps macrosemus
- Mesophleps meliphanes
- Mesophleps mylicotis
- Mesophleps nairobiensis
- Mesophleps ochracella
- Mesophleps ochroloma
- Mesophleps oxycedrella
- Mesophleps palpigera
- Mesophleps parvella
- Mesophleps safranella
- Mesophleps silacella
- Mesophleps sublutiana
- Mesophleps tabellata
- Mesophleps tephrastis
- Mesophleps tetrachroa
- Mesophleps trichombra
- Mesophleps trinotella
- Mesophleps truncatella
- Mesophleps undulatella
- Mesophleps ungella
- Mesophleps unguella
























































































































































