Lusterala | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tortricidae |
Genus: |
Lusterala Brown & Nishida, 2007 [1] |
Species: | L. phaseolana
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Binomial name | |
Lusterala phaseolana Brown & Nishida, 2007
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Lusterala is a monotypic, neotropical genus of tortix moths provisionally assigned to tribe Grapholitini of subfamily Olethreutinae, with Lusterala phaseolana as sole species. [2] [1]
Genus and species were both described in 2007 by John Wesley Brown and Kenji Nishida. [2] [1] [3] The holotype is conserved at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. [1] Based on DNA barcoding, the genus is possibly a synonym of Ecdytolopha. [4]
Lusterala phaseolana is known from Costa Rica. [2] [1] Its larvae are gall-inductive on the stems of their host plant, lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.). [2] [5]