Blastobasis inana is a moth of the family Blastobasidae. It was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881 from Hawaii, but it is a widely dispersed species whose distribution includes India, New Britain and French Polynesia.
Larvae have been recorded feeding on garden beans, coffee berries, dead sugarcane Citrus species and Dioscorea species.
Distribution It is known to occur in Hawaii, New Britain, French Polynesia, India, Japan, Réunion,Bippus, 2020. Review of the Genus Orygocera Walsingham, 1897 from the Mascarenes with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae, Stenomatinae). - SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 2020, 48 (191) Thailand, China and Papua New Guinea.National Plant Protection Organization, the Netherlands
External links
Butler, 1881. On a collection of nocturnal Lepidoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. afromoths.net
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