Margaroniini
Palpita vitrealis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Spilomelinae
Tribe: Margaroniini
C. Swinhoe & Cotes, 1889[1]
Type genus
Margaronia
Hübner, 1825

Margaroniini is a tribe of the species-rich subfamily Spilomelinae in the pyraloid moth family Crambidae. The tribe was erected by Charles Swinhoe and Everard Charles Cotes in 1889, originally as family Margaronidae.[2]: 613 

The tribe comprises a number of economically impactful species whose caterpillars feed on agricultural crops. These species include the legume pod borer (Maruca vitrata), the jasmine moth (Palpita vitrealis) on olives, the cucumber moth (Diaphania indica), species of the genus Conogethes such as the yellow peach moth (C. punctiferalis), and the coconut leafroller (Omiodes blackburni). Furthermore, the box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis) is included in this tribe.[3]

Genera

an unidentified Conogethes species
Parotis marginata
Agathodes ostentalis
caterpillar of Cydalima perspectalis
Omiodes continuatalis
an unidentified Glyphodes species
Terastia egialealis
Maruca amboinalis

The tribe is by far the most species-rich among Spilomelinae. It currently comprises 1107 species in the following 74 genera:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas; Schouten, Rob; Li, Houhun; Trofimova, Tatiana; Solis, M. Alma; De Prins, Jurate & Speidel, Wolfgang (2003–2023). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  2. ^ Swinhoe, Charles; Cotes, Everard Charles (1889). A catalogue of the moths of India. Part V. – Pyrales. Calcutta: The Trustees of the Indian Museum. pp. 591–670.
  3. ^ Mally, Richard; Hayden, James E.; Neinhuis, Christoph; Jordal, Bjarte H.; Nuss, Matthias (2019). "The phylogenetic systematics of Spilomelinae and Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) inferred from DNA and morphology" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 77 (1): 141–204. doi:10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07. ISSN 1863-7221.
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