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Cathayia insularum
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Cathayia insularum

Cathayia insularum is a species of snout moth in the genus Cathayia. It was described by Speidel and Schmitz in 1991, and is known from Spain, Malta and the Canary Islands.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on the inflorescence of Phoenix canariensis and Phoenix dactylifera

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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 971522.