Bean pod borer

Maruca vitrata

''Maruca vitrata'' is a pantropical insect pest of leguminous crops like pigeon pea, cowpea, mung bean and soybean. Its common names include the maruca pod borer, bean pod borer, soybean pod borer, mung moth, and the legume pod borer. It can cause losses of 20–80% on the harvests of cowpeas.
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Naming

The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787.
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Food

Its feeding sites on plants are flower buds, flowers and young pods. In some cases early instars feed on flower peduncles and young stems.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyCrambidae
GenusMaruca
SpeciesM. vitrata
Photographed in
Colombia
Ecuador
Madagascar
French Polynesia