Parasa lepida

TaxID: 1038400

Basic Information

Parasa lepida

Castor Slug Caterpillar

Parasa lepida, the nettle caterpillar or blue-striped nettle grub, is a moth of the family Limacodidae that was described by Pieter Cramer in 1799. It is a native minor pest found in the Indo-Malayan region, including India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is an introduced pest to urban trees in western Japan.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Limacodidae

Parasa

lepida

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Dharmendra Padhiyar@BY-NC
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(c) dave_sargeant@BY-NC
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(c) Jason Alexander@BY
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(c) goldentakin@BY
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(c) Michael and Nancy van der Poorten@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 (7 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Brazil A1 list 2018
Costa Rica Absent —
Dominican Republic Quarantine pests —
Guinea Quarantine pests —
Greece Quarantine pests —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Seychelles Quarantine pests —

Distribution (11 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
China Present —
Hong Kong, China Present —
Indonesia Present —
India Present —
Japan Present —
Sri Lanka Present —
Myanmar Present —
Malaysia Present —
Singapore Present —
Thailand 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 (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR13515773 urticating hair - - 33447901 Thailand: Chana district, Songkhla

DNA Barcodes (5 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
LTOLB1200-11 BOLD:AAD4294 COI-5P 658 Malaysia 2004-08-10 4.529, 101.339
GBART39017-23 - 18S-5P 735 Unrecoverable - -
GBAAZ35626-24 BOLD:AAI5849 COI-5P 1537 China - -
GBAAZ35625-24 BOLD:AAI5849 COI-5P 1537 China - -
GBAAN5024-25 - COI-5P 1536 Unrecoverable - -

Literature