- Tertia Grové
- ARC-Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Crops, Private Bag X11208, Nelspruit 1200
- 2000
The litchi moth, Cryptophlebia peltastica (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) is a wide-spread pest of litchi, Litchi
chinensis (Sonnerat) in South Africa. The species also occurs in Madagascar, Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion (Bradley, 1952; Quilici et al, 1988). In Reunion C. peltastica is considered to be the main fruit-eating pest of litchi.
It is an African species and develops in the fruit of the doppruim (Papea capensis), pods of the Karooboerboon (Scotia
afra), the Pride of Barbados (Ceasalpinia pulcherima), flamboyant (Delonix regia), Pride of the Cape (Bauhinia galpinit) and certain Acacia species (Annecke & Moran, 1982; De Villiers, 1988). This species also attacks the macadamia. The litchi moth has not yet been recorded on citrus (Newton & Crause, 1990).