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Crocidosema Zeller (Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Eucosmini)
The genus Crocidosema contains approximately 70 described species. Most species diversity occurs in the neotropics. Adults are brown or gray and wing patterns are typical of many Eucosmini, with numerous white costal strigulaecostal strigulae:
small, usually pale, semirectangular marks along the costa 
and a well-defined ocellusocellus:
forewing pattern element - an ovoid region anterior to the tornus; adult head - a simple insect "eye" located dorsal to the compound eye 
. Males may or may not have forewing costal folds.
Male genitalia are characterized by large sociisocii:
a pair of lightly sclerotized setose lobes
, a short uncusuncus:
a sclerotized process which is fused to the posterodorsal margin of tergum IX
, and variably shaped valvaevalva:
an appendage flanking the intromittent organ that is used to clasp the female during copulation
. Female genitalia are characterized by a pair of pockets or lobes on sternum VII and two signasignum:
a sclerotized projection or patch on the interior of the corpus bursae
in the corpus bursaecorpus bursae:
a dilated membranous sac at the anterior end of the bursa copulatrix
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Crocidosema plebejana, is cosmopolitan and occurs in Europe, northern Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, Central America, and South America, although molecular data suggests that multiple closely-related species may be involved. Larvae feed primarily on plants in the Malvaceae, and in some areas are a pest of cotton.
Crocidosema aporema is distributed from south Texas through Central and South America south to Argentina and Chile. It is a major pest of beans (Glycine max and Phaseolus spp.) in Central and South America, but has not been reported to cause economic damage in the U.S. Larvae of C. aporema are frequently intercepted at U.S. ports of entry on beans originating from Central America, South America, or the Caribbean.
Crocicosema lantana Busck is native to the neotropics, but has been widely introduced around the world as a biological control agent of Lantana.
Exotic species
Crocidosema aporema
Native species
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