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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Farahpour-Haghani, Atousa
• Hassanpour, Mahdi
• Alinia, Faramarz
• Nouri-Ganbalani, Gadir
• Razmjou, Jabraeil
• Agassiz, David

Titel

Water ferns Azolla spp. (Azollaceae) as new host plants for the small China-mark moth, Cataclysta lemnata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Acentropinae)

Ist Teil von

• Nota lepidopterologica, 2017, Vol.40 (1), p.1-13

Ort / Verlag

Sofia: Pensoft Publishers

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Water ferns ( Azolla spp., Azollaceae ) are reported for the first time as host plants for the larvae of the small China-mark moth Cataclysta lemnata (Linnaeus) ( Lepidoptera : Crambidae : Acentropinae ) in rice fields and waterways of northern Iran. Cataclysta lemnata is a semi-aquatic species that has been recorded to feed on Lemnaceae and a few other aquatic plants. However, it has not been reported before on Azolla spp. Larvae use water fern as food source and shelter and, at high population density in the laboratory, they completely wiped water fern from the water surface. Feeding was confirmed after rearing more than eight continual generations of Cataclysta lemnata on water fern in the laboratory. Adults obtained this way are darker and have darker fuscous markings in both sexes compared with specimens previously reported and the pattern remains unchanged after several generations.