The Palm Leaf Skeletonizer, Homaledra Sabalella (Chambers)

Tagged as: Lepidoptera, Momphidae

(Momphidae – Lepidoptera)

Issue No. 90
G. W. Dekle

The Palm Leaf Skeletonizer, Homaledra Sabalella (Chambers)

Introduction

The palm leaf skeletonizer is the larva of a small moth. Both upper and lower surfaces of the leaf are subject to attack by the larvae. The larva is the only destructive stage of this insect (fig. 1).

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