Diaphania indica

TaxID: 390977

Basic Information

Diaphania indica

cucumber moth, Cucumber moth, Cucumber Moth

Diaphania indica, the cucumber moth or cotton caterpillar, is a widespread but mainly Old World moth species. It belongs to the grass moth family, and therein to the large subfamily Spilomelinae. This moth occurs in many tropical and subtropical regions outside the Americas, though it is native to southern Asia; it is occasionally a significant pest of cucurbits and some other plants. This species was originally described by William Wilson Saunders in 1851 under the misspelled name Eudioptes indica (properly:Eudioptis), using specimens from Java. His syntypes are in the Hope Entomological Collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Crambidae

Diaphania

indica

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Diaphania indica
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(c) Victor Fazio@BY-NC-SA
Diaphania indica
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(c) Sunčana Bradley@BY
Diaphania indica
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(c) Sunčana Bradley@BY
Diaphania indica
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(c) Michael and Nancy van der Poorten@BY-NC
Diaphania indica
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(c) Rajeevan@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (4 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Quarantine Status (8 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Angola Quarantine pests —
Brazil A1 list 2018
Chile Quarantine pests 2019
Costa Rica Absent —
Dominican Republic Quarantine pests —
Ghana Quarantine pests —
Panama Quarantine pests —
United States of America Quarantine pests 1994

Distribution (107 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

105
Present
2
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Angola Present —
United Arab Emirates Present —
American Samoa Present —
Australia Present
Benin Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Brazil Present —
Brunei Darussalam Present —
Botswana Present —
Central African Republic Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature