Leucinodes orbonalis
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
Leucinodes orbonalis, the eggplant fruit and shoot borer or brinjal fruit and shoot borer, is a moth species in the genus Leucinodes described by Achille Guenée in 1854. Its native distribution is in the tropical and subtropical parts of Australia and Asia, where it is recorded from Pakistan, Nepal, India, including the Andaman Islands, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, and Indonesia (Java). It has also been intercepted from fruit imports in the U.S.A., the Netherlands, Denmark and Great Britain, where it was also reported from the wild. A taxonomic revision of the Leucinodes species of Sub-Saharan Africa concluded that L. orbonalis is currently not present in Africa, and that previous records of this species were misidentifications of previously undescribed species.
Imagines have a forewing length of 8.5–10.5 mm in males and 9.5–12 mm in females. The forewing ground colour is white, with a light- to dark-brown basal area, delimited by a dark-brown to grey antemedial line. The median area has a pale-brown, faint proximal discoidal stigma. The distal discoidal... Wikipedia →
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| 1 | Bengaluru | 🇮🇳 India |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report an Eggplant Fruit And Shoot Borer sighting in Bengaluru on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 395th most-seen of the 477 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, June and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report an Eggplant Fruit And Shoot Borer in Bengaluru on a given day, against under 5% in February–May, July–October and December, the lowest months.
Between 9 pm and midnight
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eggplant Fruit And Shoot Borer sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Bengaluru, in our data
Bengaluru is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Eggplant Fruit And Shoot Borer sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Crambidae
The closest relatives of the Eggplant Fruit And Shoot Borer that you can see in Bengaluru (family Crambidae, Crambid Snout Moths) are Hawaiian Beet Webworm Moth (about 30%), Mung Bean Moth (about 10%) and Pearl Grey Moth (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Eggplant Fruit And Shoot Borer is recorded against all the insects logged in Bengaluru (6 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
