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Annona fruit borer
C. anonella on Annona muricata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Cerconota
Species:	C. anonella
Binomial name
Cerconota anonella (Sepp, 1830)
Synonyms
Phalaena anonella Sepp, 1855 Stenoma hamon Busck, 1911 Stenoma strophalodes Meyrick, 1915

Cerconota anonella, the annona fruit borer, is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Honduras and on Hispaniola.

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are white, anteriorly with scattered fuscous specks and with a straight cloudy fuscous shade from one-fifth of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, as well as a small dark fuscous spot representing the second discal stigma. There is an irregular fuscous shade from the middle of the costa to three-fourths of the dorsum, obtusely angulated in the middle. A curved fuscous line is found from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, indented towards the costa. There is also a series of dark fuscous marginal marks around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey.

It is known to cause significant damage to the fruits of plant genus Annona.

References

1. "Cerconota Meyrick, 1915" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Description of Stenoma strophalodes in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (15): 454 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
3. MDa Silva, E. L.; De Carvalho, C. M.; Do Nascimento, R. R.; Mendonça, A. L.; Da Silva, C. E.; Gonçalves, G. B.; De Freitas, M. d. R. T. & Sant'Ana, A. E. G. (October 2006). "Reproductive Behaviour of the Annona Fruit Borer, Cerconota anonella". Ethology. 112 (10): 971–976. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01255.x.

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