Hyphantria cunea

Basic information
Scientific name	Hyphantria cunea	Click to magnify
Common names	fall webworm
Higher taxon	Arctiidae, Noctuoidea, Lepidoptera
Natural range	North America.
Habitat	In introduced region, road side and garden tree.

Invasion information
Range in Japan	Wide area of Honshu (main land), parts of Shikoku and Kyushu, and Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands.
Origin	USA
Date	Just after W.W.II, recorded in Tokyo, and spread by 1970s. First record of Ogasawara Islands in 1994.
Route	Accidental introduction (contamination with U.S. military transport).
Impact	Predation against native species. harmful to forestry . Native organism(s) affected: Cultivation tree species.
Regulation in Japan	Family Arctiidae is desgnated as a Quarantine Pest (the Plant Protection Law).
Introduced range in other countries	Europe, China, Korea.

Reference

Notes

Gomi (1997) Geographic variation in critical photoperiod for diapause induction and its temperature dependence in Hyphantria cunea (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Oecologia 111: 160-165.
Murakami & Washitani (supervising) Ecol. Soc. Japan (ed) (2002) Handbook of Alien Species in Japan. Chijin-Shokan. (in Jpn)
Plant Protection Station (2011) The Plant Protection Act. Quarantine Pest List. (Accessed on 2012-6-15) http://www.pps.go.jp/law_active/Notification/basis/5/245/html/245.html (in Jpn)
etc.

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