Green garden looper | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Chrysodeixis |
Species: | C. eriosoma
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Binomial name | |
Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843)
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Synonyms | |
Plusia eriosoma Doubleday, 1843 |
Chrysodeixis eriosoma, the green garden looper, known in New Zealand as the Silver Y,[1] is a moth of the family Noctuidae. Mostly cosmopolitan in distribution, it is a pest in Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, the Malay Peninsula and Australasia.[2] It is present in Hawaii and recorded as an incursion in mainland North America and Russia.[3] It is morphologically identical to Chrysodeixis chalcites and the two may be sibling species.
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