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Jordan's fruit piercing moth | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Eudocima |
Species: | E. jordani |
Binomial name | |
Eudocima jordani (Holland, 1900) | |
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Eudocima jordani, the Jordan's fruit piercing moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on New Guinea and Queensland, Australia. Adults are considered a commercial pest. They damage fruit by piercing the skin to suck juice.
The wingspan is about 70 mm.
The larvae feed on Tinospora smilacina.
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Taxon identifiers | |
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Eudocima jordani |