''Selenisa sueroides'', the pale-edged selenisa or legume caterpillar, is an owlet moth in the family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...
. The species was
first described by
Achille Guenée
Achille Guenée (sometimes M.A. Guenée; 1 January 1809 – 30 December 1880) was a French lawyer and entomologist.
Biography
Achille Guenée was born in Chartres and died in Châteaudun.
He was educated in Chartres, where he showed a very e ...
in 1852. It is found in North America.
[
Some systems of ]Microtubing
Microtubing or ''spaghetti tubing'' is a very fine plastic tubing used in drip irrigation, typically in gardens and greenhouses, with a small inside diameter which may be 0.05" or smaller.
It was introduced in the 1950s in the United States, i ...
to help irrigate commercial crops have been compromised, as the larvae of ''S. sueroides'' had damaged the pipes in the citrus groves of south Florida. The caterpillars had munched holes in the plastic tubing to penetrate the pipes and then pupate
A pupa ( la, pupa, "doll"; plural: ''pupae'') is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in their ...
. They seemed to prefer black tubing compared to coloured tubing.[Freddie R. Lamm, James E. Ayars and Francis S. Nakayama (Editors) ]
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Moths described in 1852
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