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Correct name for the species of Chilozela (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) whose caterpillars damage cassava in South America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Vitor Osmar Becker
Affiliation:
Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária dos Cerrados, P.O. Box 70–0023, 73300-Planaltina, DF, Brazil

Abstract

Chilozela trapeziana (Sepp) comb. n. is the senior name for the pyralid whose larvae damage cassava leaves in South America, and Botys jatrophalis Walker syn. n. and Phlyctaenodes bifilalis Hampson syn. n. are junior synonyms.

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