Eudocima phalonia

Common fruit-piercing moth
Male in India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Eudocima
Species:
E. phalonia
Binomial name
Eudocima phalonia
Synonyms
  • Othreis fullonica
  • Eudocima fullonia (Clerck, 1764)
  • Phalaena phalonia Linnaeus, 1763
  • Phalaena fullonia Clerck, 1764
  • Phalaena fullonica Linnaeus, 1767
  • Noctua dioscoreae Fabricius, 1775
  • Phalaena pomona Cramer, 1776
  • Ophideres princeps Boisduval, 1832
  • Ophideres obliterans Walker, 1858

Eudocima phalonia, the common fruit-piercing moth, is a fruit piercing moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum. It is found in large parts of the tropics, mainly in Asia, Africa and Australia but introduced into other areas such as Hawaii, New Zealand and the Society Islands. It is one of major fruit pests in the world.[1]

  1. ^ "Eudocima phalonia (Linnaeus)". Insects in Indian Agroecosystems. ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources. Retrieved 18 August 2016.