Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)

Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Poltavsky, Alexander, Segerer, Andreas, Speidel, Wolfgang & Müller, Günter C., 2020, An annotated checklist of the Crambidae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) of Israel, with remarks on their distribution and phenology, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 50 (1), pp. 85-129 : 116

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scientific name	Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)
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124. Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851) View in CoL *

Records: German–Israeli project. New to Israel.

General distribution: Pantropical. All over tropical Africa, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, introduced to Australia and Central America.

Distribution in Israel: All over country. In desert concentrates in oases.

Period of flight in Israel: April–October.

Host plants: Luffa acutangula , Luffa aegyptiaca , Trichosanthes anguina , Trichosanthes palmata ( Cucurbitaceae ), Erythrina corallodendron ( Fabaceae ), Achyranthes aspera ( Amaranthaceae ), Gossypium herbaceum ( Malvaceae ). Severe pest of cucurbits.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Crambidae
Genus	Diaphania

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