Hylotelephium spectabile, a New Host for Carnation Tortrix Moth (Cacoecimorpha pronubana) and Molecular Characterization in Greece.

Dimitrios N Avtzis,Emmanouil Roditakis,Konstantinos B Simoglou,Joaquín Baixeras,Ioanna Sarigkoli

doi:10.3390/insects12030245

Abstract

Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Hübner) (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) is a highly polyphagous pest of a wide range of crop and ornamental plants. It is of Mediterranean origin and widespread in European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) region. For the first time, infestations of Hylotelephium spectabile (Boreau) Ohba (syn.: Sedum spectabile Boreau) (Saxifragales, Crassulaceae) ornamental plants by C. pronubana larvae, in private gardens in urban area of Drama, Greece, were found. Species identification was conducted based on morphology of female genitalia. In addition, due to reports on occurrence of cryptic C. pronubana species within Europe, DNA barcoding was carried out to determine the molecular status of the pest. This communication reports a new host of C. pronubana and places the Greek pest population along with European species clade.

Highlights

The carnation tortrix moth, Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Hübner) (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) is a highly polyphagous and locally important pest of a wide range of crop plants.In addition, C. pronubana infests ornamental plants (Table 1)
We report a carnation tortrix infestation on butterfly stonecrop plants
Given the distinct separarevealed among the populations of C. pronubana worldwide [18], we compiled all the tion that has been previously revealed among the populations of C. pronubana worldwide available C. pronubana sequences, deposited both in NCBI

Summary

Introduction

The carnation tortrix moth, Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Hübner) (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) is a highly polyphagous and locally important pest of a wide range of crop plants. C. pronubana infests ornamental plants (Table 1). Considered a typical Mediterranean element, C. pronubana is widely distributed among most EPPO member-countries [1] and is locally common across Europe to Asia Minor, North Africa, but it is recorded from South Africa as well as North America [2,3,4,5,6,7]. In Greece the species occurs both in mainland [7] and on the island of Crete [8]

Identification

Biological and Taxonomic Notes of Cacoecimorpha pronubana

Conclusions