Cryptophlebia semilunana is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Africa, where it is known from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Madagascar, Réunion and Mauritius.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Cryptophlebia |
| Species: | C. semilunana
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| Cryptophlebia semilunana (Saalmüller, 1880)[1]
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Host plants of the larvae of this species are Fabaceae (Sesbania sp.)[3]
References
edit- ^ Saalmüller 1880. Neue Lepidopteren aus Madagascar, die sich in Museum der Senckenberg'schen naturforschenden Gesellschaft befinden. - Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a.M. 1879–1880:258–310
- ^ afromoths
- ^ Bradley, 1953a. Some important species of the genus Cryptophlebia Walsingham, 1899, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae). - Bulletin of Entomological Research 43(4):679–689, pls. 24–25.
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