Sesamia nonagrioides

TaxID: 236805

Basic Information

Sesamia nonagrioides

Maize Wainscot, Mediterranean Corn Borer, Mediterranean corn borer

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 Lef bvre de C risy 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 C40 mm. The larvae feed on Phragmites communis and Arundo donax and probably also other grasses with thick stems.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Noctuidae

Sesamia

nonagrioides

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Sesamia nonagrioides
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(c) Ferran Turmo Gort@BY-NC-SA
Sesamia nonagrioides
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(c) diegoreggianti@BY-NC
Sesamia nonagrioides
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(c) Paolo Mazzei@BY-NC
Sesamia nonagrioides
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(c) Paolo Mazzei@BY-NC
Sesamia nonagrioides
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(c) Paolo Mazzei@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (4 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Sri Lanka Quarantine pests —
Mozambique Quarantine pests —
Nepal Quarantine pests —

Distribution (16 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Spain Present —
France Present —
Gabon Present —
Ghana Present —
Greece Present —
Croatia Present —
Iran Present —
Italy Present —
Kenya Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_017933935.1 Scaffold 1021 1074 1104 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
ERR424922 - - female 55688903 -
ERR424929 - - female 36430026 -
ERR424926 - - female 45097179 -

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature