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A Liparid Moth (Ocnerogyia amanda, Staud.) destructive to Figs in Mesopotamia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

P. A. Buxton
P. A. Buxton
Affiliation:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
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There are few countries in which agriculture is more important and the enemies of the crops less known than Mesopotamia. The following notes on a serious pest of the fig-tree in various parts of the Baghdad vilayet were put together on the River Diyala, north-east of Baghdad, at the end of July 1918. The Liparid moth which is so injurious has been determined by Sir G. F. Hampson as Ocnerogyia amanda, Staud. The larve devoured all the fig leaves completely. with the exception of one or two of the large vascular bundles. The fruit shrivelled and dropped before it was ripe.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , August 1920 , pp. 181 - 186
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1920

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