Blastobasis inana

Blastobasis inana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Blastobasidae
Genus: Blastobasis
Species:
B. inana
Binomial name
Blastobasis inana
(Butler, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Gracilaria inana Butler, 1881
  • Blastobasis explorata Meyrick, 1918

Blastobasis inana is a moth of the family Blastobasidae. It was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881 from Hawaii, but it is a widely dispersed species whose distribution includes India, New Britain and French Polynesia.

Larvae have been recorded feeding on garden beans, coffee berries, dead sugarcane and Dioscorea species.

  • Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1978). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 9 Microlepidoptera. The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7338.


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