Sphingomorpha chlorea information

Sundowner moth
	in Sri Lanka
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Sphingomorpha
Species:	S. chlorea
Binomial name
	Sphingomorpha chlorea; (Cramer, 1777)

Sphingomorpha chlorea, the sundowner moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae that is native to Africa and southern Asia. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is a fruit-piercing moth and a notorious pest in orchards.^[1] The fruit is pierced while performing a vertical and rhythmic movement of the head.^[2]

^ Walter Reuther (1989). The Citrus Industry: Crop Protection, Postharvest Technology, and Early History of Citrus Research in California. UCANR Publications. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-0-931876-87-5.
^ Bänziger, H. (1970). "The piercing mechanism of the fruit-piercing moth Calpe [Calyptra] thalictri Bkh. (Noctuidae) with reference to the skin-piercing blood-sucking moth C. eustrigata Hmps". Acta Tropica. 27 (1): 54–88. PMID 4393029.

[Reuther1989-1] Walter Reuther (1989). The Citrus Industry: Crop Protection, Postharvest Technology, and Early History of Citrus Research in California. UCANR Publications. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-0-931876-87-5.

[ban-2] Bänziger, H. (1970). "The piercing mechanism of the fruit-piercing moth Calpe [Calyptra] thalictri Bkh. (Noctuidae) with reference to the skin-piercing blood-sucking moth C. eustrigata Hmps". Acta Tropica. 27 (1): 54–88. PMID 4393029.

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