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Melittia oedipus
Plate 1 of 6. David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA (CC BY 2.0) · via Wikimedia

Melittia oedipus

Melittia oedipus, the African vine borer, is a moth of the Sesiidae family. It originates from Africa (where it is known from Equatorial Guinea, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Kenya), but has been introduced in Hawaii to control ivy gourd (Coccinia grandis).

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 514147.