Udea rubigalis Guenée, 1854 is a animal in the Crambidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Udea rubigalis Guenée, 1854

Udea rubigalis Guenée, 1854

Udea rubigalis, the celery/greenhouse leaftier, is a polyphagous Crambidae moth found across the Americas.

Family
Genus
Udea
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Udea rubigalis Guenée, 1854

Udea rubigalis, commonly known as the celery leaftier or greenhouse leaftier, is a species in the moth family Crambidae. It is distributed across the Americas, and was first formally described by Achille Guenée in 1854. Its larvae are polyphagous, feeding on a wide variety of plants from many different plant families. A list of preferred host plants and records of less injurious feeding on other host plants were begun but not completed in this source.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Crambidae Udea

More from Crambidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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