Record of New Host-plants of Sesia molybdoceps (HAMPSON) in Japan (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae)

DOI
  • ARITA Yutaka
    Zoological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University
  • YURA Fumitaka
    Zoological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title
  • Sesia molybdoceps(HAMPSON)の日本からの新しい食草の記録

Abstract

Sesia molybdoceps (HAMPSON) is known to feed on Quercus sessiliforia BLUME(Fagaceae) in Japan (WATANABE, 1967). The larvae were found in Aichi-ken in 1983, 1985 and 1986, feeding on three fagaceous plants, Castanea crenata SlEBOLD et ZUCCAR-INI, Quercus acutissima CARRUTHERS and Q. serrata THUNBERG, and they developed into adults. The larva bores under the bark and makes irregular tunnels or rather small hole between bark and wood from ground level to near one meter high of host-plant. The larva is soaking wet in sap, and the frass and sap are extruded or oozed from larval tunnel through bark during summer season. Beetles and wasps come to the ooze on the surface of trunk in swarms. Pupation takes place in cocoon very close to or in the larval tunnel in August.

Journal

  • Lepidoptera Science

    Lepidoptera Science 39 (1), 91-92, 1988

    THE LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390282680241569664
  • NII Article ID
    110007707699
  • DOI
    10.18984/lepid.39.1_91
  • ISSN
    18808077
    00240974
  • Text Lang
    en
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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    Disallowed

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