Sesamia nonagrioides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Sesamia
- Species
- Sesamia nonagrioides
- Scientific Name
- Sesamia nonagrioides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sesamia nonagrioides
Sesamia nonagrioides, the Mediterranean corn borer, pink stalk borer or West African pink borer, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was described by Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy in 1827. It is found in Spain, southern France, Italy and on the Balkan Peninsula, as well as in north-western, south-western and western Africa.
The wingspan is 30–40 mm.
The larvae feed on Phragmites communis and Arundo donax and probably also other grasses with thick stems.
...Sesamia nonagrioides in languages:
- Dutch
- Zuidelijke graanboorder
- English
- Corn stalk borer
- French
- Nonagrie bétique
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Sesamia capensis
- Sesamia confusa
- Sesamia congoensis
- Sesamia coniota
- Sesamia corymbosus
- Sesamia cretica
- Sesamia enanouae
- Sesamia epunctifera
- Sesamia firmata
- Sesamia funebris
- Sesamia fuscifrontia
- Sesamia geyri
- Sesamia grisescens
- Sesamia ilonae
- Sesamia incerta
- Sesamia inferens
- Sesamia jansei
- Sesamia kouilouensis
- Sesamia lacteola
- Sesamia louyaensis
- Sesamia madagascariensis
- Sesamia mediostriga
- Sesamia mesosticha
- Sesamia monodi
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- Sesamia nigritarsis
- Sesamia nigropunctata
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- Sesamia oriaula
- Sesamia pennipuncta
- Sesamia penniseti
- Sesamia plagiographa
- Sesamia poephaga
- Sesamia pseudoturpis
- Sesamia punctipennis
- Sesamia punctivena
- Sesamia roumeti
- Sesamia royi
- Sesamia rubritincta
- Sesamia rufescens
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- Sesamia sabulosa
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