Cadarena

Cadarena is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1886. Its only species, Cadarena pudoraria, was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It occurs throughout tropical and subtropical Africa and in India.

Cadarena
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Tribe: Margaroniini
Genus: Cadarena
Moore, 1886
Species:
C. pudoraria
Binomial name
Cadarena pudoraria
(Hübner, 1825)
Synonyms

Generic

  • Cadarina
  • Idalia Hübner, 1825
  • Idalia Hübner, 1819

Specific

  • Idalia pudoraria Hübner, 1825
  • Phalaena Geometra marginata Stoll in Cramer & Stoll, 1782
  • Botys marginalis Guenée, 1854
  • Phalaena sinuata Fabricius, 1781

The adults of this species have a wingspan of around 40 millimetres (1.6 in).

A known larval food plants are of the genera Gossypium and Adenia and the species Sida rhombifolia.

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