Maruca testulalis

TaxID: 311903

Basic Information

Maruca testulalis

Bean Pod Borer, bean pod borer

Maruca vitrata is a pantropical insect pest of leguminous crops like pigeon pea, cowpea, mung bean and soybean. Its common names include the maruca pod borer, bean pod borer, soybean pod borer, mung moth, and the legume pod borer. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It can cause losses of 20 C80% on the harvests of cowpeas. Its feeding sites on plants are flower buds, flowers and young pods. In some cases early instars feed on flower peduncles and young stems.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Crambidae

Maruca

testulalis

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Photos (5 photos)

Maruca testulalis
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(c) Kai Squires@BY
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(c) budak@BY-NC
Maruca testulalis
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(c) EEKB@BY-NC-SA
Maruca testulalis
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(c) Unnikrishnan M P@BY-NC
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(c) unknown@CC0

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (5 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Tuvalu Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR28577157 mixture - - 22228388 China: Xi'an, Shaanxi
SRR28577156 mixture - - 22047385 China: Xi'an, Shaanxi
SRR28577154 mixture - - 21382404 China: Xi'an, Shaanxi

DNA Barcodes (17 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
NIBSK1351-24 BOLD:AAB2756 COI-5P 429 South Korea 2023-07-19 34.873, 126.138
GBMTG4052-16 BOLD:AAB2756 ND6 528 - - -
GBMTG4052-16 BOLD:AAB2756 ND5-0 1732 - - -
GBMTG4052-16 BOLD:AAB2756 ND4L 288 - - -
GBMTG4052-16 BOLD:AAB2756 ND4 1338 - - -
GBMTG4052-16 BOLD:AAB2756 ND3 351 - - -
GBMTG4052-16 BOLD:AAB2756 ND2 1011 - - -
GBMTG4052-16 BOLD:AAB2756 ND1 936 - - -
GBMTG4052-16 BOLD:AAB2756 CYTB 1146 - - -
GBMTG4052-16 BOLD:AAB2756 COXIII 786 - - -
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Literature