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- Title
Siamusotima aranea, a New Stem-Boring Musotimine (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from Thailand Feeding on Lygodium flexuosum (Schizaeaceae).
- Authors
Solis, M. Alma; Shen-Horn Yen; Goolsby, John H.; Wright, Tony; Pemberton, Robert; Winotai, Ampom; Chattrukul, Usanee; Thagong, Amara; Rimbut, Suriont
- Abstract
Siamusotima aranea Solis & Yen, is a new stem-boring musotimine species from Thailand. It was discovered in the steins of Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw. (Schizaeaceae) during exploration for biological control agents of Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R. Br., the Old World climbing fern. This is the first report in the Pyraloidea of a stem-boring larva with unique modifications of the anal segment resembling that of tenebrionid beetle immatures and with observations of possible mimicry between the adult moth and spiders.
- Subjects
THAILAND; ARANEUS; LYGODIUM; TENEBRIONIDAE; SPECIES
- Publication
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2005, Vol 98, Issue 6, p887
- ISSN
0013-8746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1603/0013-8746(2005)098[0887:SAANSM]2.0.CO;2