Crocidosema plebejana

TaxID: 1372312

Basic Information

Crocidosema plebejana

Cotton Tipworm, Southern Bell

Crocidosema plebejana, the cotton tipworm, is a tortrix moth (family Tortricidae), belonging to tribe Eucosmini of subfamily Olethreutinae. It is found today all over the subtropical and tropical regions of the world and even occurs on many oceanic islands C in Polynesia and Saint Helena for example C but has probably been accidentally introduced to much of its current range by humans. In addition, it is also found in some cooler regions, e.g. in Europe except in the east and north; this is probably also not natural, as it was, for example, not recorded in the British Isles before 1900. It is the type species of its genus Crocidosema, established by Philipp Christoph Zeller when he described the present species in 1847, as he found it unlike any moth then known to science.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Tortricidae

Crocidosema

plebejana

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Crocidosema plebejana
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(c) Kate Braun@BY-NC
Crocidosema plebejana
c
(c) Ian McMillan@BY-NC
Crocidosema plebejana
c
(c) Larney Grenfell@BY-NC
Crocidosema plebejana
c
(c) Ian McMillan@BY-NC
Crocidosema plebejana
c
(c) Ian McMillan@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (1 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Gossypium Host

Quarantine Status (4 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Mozambique Quarantine pests —
Nicaragua Absent —
Nepal Quarantine pests —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (65 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Algeria Present —
United Arab Emirates Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
Bermuda Present —
Brazil 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