Leucinodes laisalis

Leucinodes laisalis
Female, brownish form
Female, grey form
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Leucinodes
Species:
L. laisalis
Binomial name
Leucinodes laisalis
(Walker, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Megaphysa laisalis Walker, 1859
  • Sceliodes laisalis
  • Daraba laisalis
  • Daraba idmonealis Walker, 1859
  • Hyamia subterminalis Walker, 1866
  • Leucinodes translucidalis Gaede, 1917[1]
  • Sceliodes translucidalis

Leucinodes laisalis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It was described as Megaphysa laisalis by Francis Walker based on material collected in the Cape Province of South Africa.[2]: 382 

The wingspan is 20–34 mm.[3] The species exhibits sexual dimorphism, with females being somewhat larger. The forewing ground colour ranges from orange to grey brown.[4]

Distribution

It is mainly distributed in Africa, where it is known from Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Israel, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.[4][5][6] It has also been recorded from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom, which probably do not represent native occurrences of the species but rather unintentional introductions along with imports of eggplants, tomatoes and other Solanaceae, the species' host plants.[4][7][8][9] In southern Spain, the species is established since at least 1958[8] and has extended its range to Portugal, with a spread rate of 5.51–11.51 km/year.[10]: 84 

Larval food plants

Like all species of the tribe Lineodini,[11] the larvae of L. laisalis exclusively feed on the fruits of Solanaceae. Their recorded host plants are Solanum anguivi, Solanum incanum, Solanum linnaeanum, Solanum macrocarpon, Solanum melongena, Lycopersicon esculentum and Capsicum annuum.[12]

References

  1. ^ Gaede, Max (1917). "Neue Lepidopteren des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. I. Aethiopische Pyralididen". Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin (in German). 8 (3): 387–401.
  2. ^ Walker, Francis (1859). "Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera, Fourth Series, Tribe 9. Pyralites". List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. 17. London: 255–508.
  3. ^ "Sceliodes laisalis (Walker, 1859)". UKMoths. Retrieved 2026-02-19.
  4. ^ a b c Mally, Richard; Korycinska, Anastasia; Agassiz, David J. L.; Hall, Jayne; Hodgetts, Jennifer; Nuss, Matthias (2015). "Discovery of an unknown diversity of Leucinodes species damaging Solanaceae fruits in sub-Saharan Africa and moving in trade (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea)". ZooKeys (472): 117–162. doi:10.3897/zookeys.472.8781. PMC 4304033. PMID 25632252.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  5. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2023). "Leucinodes laisalis (Walker, 1859)". Afromoths. Retrieved 2026-02-19.
  6. ^ Kravchenko, Vasiliy D.; Poltavsky, Alexander; Segerer, Andreas; Speidel, Wolfgang; Müller, Günter C. (2020-11-05). "An annotated checklist of the Crambidae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) of Israel, with remarks on their distribution and phenology". Israel Journal of Entomology. 50 (1): 85–129. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4247249.
  7. ^ Speidel, Wolfgang (1996). "Pyraloidea (part)". In Karsholt, Ole; Razowski, Józef (eds.). The Lepidoptera of Europe. A distributional checklist. Apollo Books, Stenstrup. pp. 166–183, 187–196, 319–327. ISBN 9788788757019.
  8. ^ a b Huertas Dionisio, M. (2000). "Immature states of Lepidoptera (XIII). Three species of tropical origin of the subfamily Pyraustinae Meyrick, 1890: (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae)". SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología. 28 (111): 321–334.
  9. ^ Walter, Jan; Hula, Vladimír (2025). "Travařík Leucinodes laisalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) nalezen v Plzni" (PDF). Západočeské entomologické listy (in Czech). 16: 6–8.
  10. ^ EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH); Bragard, Claude; Baptista, Paula; Chatzivassiliou, Elisavet; Di Serio, Francesco; Gonthier, Paolo; Miret, Anton Jaques; Fejer Justesen, Annemarie; MacLeod, Alan; Magnusson, Christer Sven; Milonas, Panagiotis; Navas-Cortes, Juan A.; Parnell, Stephen; Potting, Roel; Reignault, Philippe Lucien; Stefani, Emilio; Thulke, Hans-Hermann; Civera, Antonio Vicent; Yuen, Jonathan; Zappalà, Lucia; Mally, Richard; Czwienczek, Ewelina; Gobbi, Alex; López Mercadal, Júlia; Maiorano, Andrea; Mosbach-Schulz, Olaf; Pautasso, Marco; Rossi, Eugenio; Stancanelli, Giuseppe; Tramontini, Sara; Van der Werf, Wopke (2024). "Pest risk assessment of Leucinodes orbonalis for the European Union". EFSA Journal. 22 e8498. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8498.
  11. ^ Mally, Richard; Hayden, James E.; Neinhuis, Christoph; Jordal, Bjarte H.; Nuss, Matthias (2019). "The phylogenetic systematics of Spilomelinae and Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) inferred from DNA and morphology" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 77 (1): 141–204. doi:10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07. ISSN 1863-7221.
  12. ^ Hayden, James E.; Lee, Sangmi; Passoa, Steven C.; Young, James; Landry, Jean-François; Nazari, Vazrick; Mally, Richard; Somma, Louis A.; Ahlmark, Kurt M. (2013). "Sceliodes laisalis". Digital Identification of Microlepidoptera on Solanaceae. USDA-APHIS-PPQ Identification Technology Program (ITP), Fort Collins, CO, USA. Retrieved 2026-02-19.
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