An outsider on the Antarctic Peninsula: A new record of the non‐native moth Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Benitez, Hugo A., Salinas, Carla, Hernández, Jordan, Contador Mejías, Tamara, Kim, Sanghee, Maturana, Claudia S., Rebolledo, Lorena, Pérez, Laura M., Câmara, Paulo E. A. S., Alves Ferreira, Vinícius, Lobos, Isabel, Piñeiro, Alejandro, Convey, Peter
• Other Authors: Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Yelcho; Doumer; Doumer Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10838; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.10838

Abstract We report the first record of the microlepidopteran Plodia interpunctella beyond the South Shetland Islands at the Chilean Yelcho scientific station (64°52′33.1428″ S; 63°35′1.9572″ W), Doumer Island, close to the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is notable that P. interpunctella ,...