Report of Phycodes radiata (Lep.: Brachodidae) from Iran

Subject Areas : Plant Protection

Hamzeh Ramezani Karim ¹ ()
Sohrab Imani ² ()
Maryam Basirian ³ ()
Rajesh Kumar ⁴ ()

Received: 2011-07-12 Accepted : 2012-02-14 Published : 2011-02-20

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Abstract :

In 2010, during a Research on leaf-feeders of common fig (Ficus carica L.) in Kerman, a new pest was found and identitied as Phycodes radiate (Ochsenheimer, 1808) (Lep. : Brachodidae). The larva feed from upper epidermis and parenchyma tissue of leaves and cause the folding of the leaves by web formation. This is a first report of this species from Iran.  

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