Maruca vitrata
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Maruca vitrata is a pantropical insect pest of leguminous crops like pigeon pea, cowpea, mung bean and soybean. Its common names include the maruca pod borer, bean pod borer, soybean pod borer, mung moth, and the legume pod borer. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787.
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Bean pod borer | |
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Sinharaja Forest, Viharahena, Sri Lanka | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Crambidae |
Genus: | Maruca |
Species: | M. vitrata |
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Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787) | |
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It can cause losses of 20–80% on the harvests of cowpeas.[1]
Its feeding sites on plants are flower buds, flowers and young pods. In some cases early instars feed on flower peduncles and young stems.