Homona salaconis

Homona salaconis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is found in the Philippines, Seram, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Dutch New Guinea. The habitat consists of cultivated areas and lowland forests.[2]

Homona salaconis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Homona
Species:
H. salaconis
Binomial name
Homona salaconis
(Meyrick, 1912)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cacoecia salaconis Meyrick, 1912
  • Archips salaconis Diakonoff, 1967
  • Homona amphigona Meyrick, 1936
  • Cacoecia spilotoma Meyrick, 1921
  • Cacoecia xanthochroma Wileman & Stringer, 1929

The larvae feed on Elaeis guineensis, Theobroma cacao and Solanum species.[3]

References
  1. Tortricid.net
  2. Razowski, Józef (December 2013). "An assessment of the Tortricid (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) fauna of Seram Island, Indonesia" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 56 (2): 29–89. doi:10.3409/azc.56_2.29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-29 – via Internet Archive.
  3. Tortricidae Food Plant Database
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