Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Diamond Back Moth.
SYNONYMS
Phalaena xylostella, Plutella albovenosa, Plutella annulatella, Plutella brassicella, Plutella cicerella, Plutella cinerea, Plutella cruciferarum, Plutella dubiosella, Plutella limbipennella, Cerastoma maculipennis, Plutella megapterella, Plutella mollipedelia, Plutella niveella,
SPECIES IN GENUS :- 8
balanopis, dryoxyla, formicatella, orosema, oxylopha, stichocentra, symmorpha, xylostella,
DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Congo, DRCongo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, La Reunion, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Brassica, Solanum Lonicera, Iberis, Matthiola, Erysimum,