Hyblaea puera

TaxID: 268502

Basic Information

Hyblaea puera

Teak Defoliator, Teak defoliator moth, teak defoliator

Hyblaea puera, the teak defoliator, is a moth and cryptic species complex native to South Asia and South-east Asia. It was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. The species has also been recently reported to be present in Central America and Africa. The caterpillar feeds on teak and other trees. It is considered to be one of the major teak pests around the world.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Hyblaeidae

Hyblaea

puera

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Hyblaea puera
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Hyblaea puera
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(c) Balakrishnan Peroth@BY-NC
Hyblaea puera
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(c) 103755393532442962083@BY-NC
Hyblaea puera
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(c) Kit Law@BY-NC
Hyblaea puera
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(c) Vijay Anand Ismavel@BY-NC-SA

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 (3 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Nicaragua Absent —

Distribution (35 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Bahamas Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
Brazil Present —
Bhutan Present —
Cambodia Present —
China Present —
Costa Rica Present —
Cuba 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_053542815.1 Chromosome 371 11439 12621 -

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR34587760 muscle tissue - - 25531365 China:Guangxi

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature