Anabasis ochrodesma

Anabasis ochrodesma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Genus:	Anabasis
Species:	A. ochrodesma
Binomial name
	Anabasis ochrodesma; (Zeller, 1881)
Synonyms
	Myelois ochrodesma Zeller, 1881 ; Acrobasis crassiquamella Hampson, 1901 ;

Anabasis ochrodesma, the cassia webworm, is a species of snout moth. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1881.^[1] It is found from Florida through Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Cuba, Grenada, Jamaica, Trinidad, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama to Colombia and Venezuela.^[2]

Adults are on wing year round in several generations per year.

The larvae feed on Cassia species, including Cassia obtusifolia, Cassia alata, , Cassia fistula, Cassia javanica and Cassia siamea. Young larvae bore in the terminal shoots of the host plant. Later, they bind together several leaflets with silk to form a flat shelter. They feed on the inner epidermis and mesophyll of these leaflets from within their shelter. Several larvae may be found in a single shelter.^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
^ Savela, Markku. "Anabasis Heinrich, 1956". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
^ Systematics of immature phycitines (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

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[Pyraloidea_db-1] "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved August 26, 2017.

[2] Savela, Markku. "Anabasis Heinrich, 1956". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 26, 2017.

[3] Systematics of immature phycitines (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

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