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First record of the Indian meal moth Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) at a research station in Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2022

Paulo E.A.S. Câmara Open the ORCID record for Paulo E.A.S. Câmara [Opens in a new window] ,
Peter Convey Open the ORCID record for Peter Convey [Opens in a new window] ,
Vinícius Alves Ferreira ,
Pedro Henrique Brum Togni  and
José Roberto Pujol-Luz
Paulo E.A.S. Câmara*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
Peter Convey
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa
Vinícius Alves Ferreira
Affiliation:
Agronômica, Laboratório de Diagnóstico Fitossanitário e Consultoria, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Pedro Henrique Brum Togni
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
José Roberto Pujol-Luz
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
*
paducamara@gmail.com
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Abstract

We report the first formal record of the Indian meal moth Plodia interpunctella from a location within the Antarctic Treaty area, with the capture of a live adult male within the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz research station on King George Island, South Shetland Islands. This species is a well-known pest of stored products and is widely recorded in synanthropic situations such as food stores globally. No other adults or immature stages have been observed on the station. While there is no suggestion that P. interpunctella could survive or establish in the natural environment beyond the station, this observation highlights the ever-present threat of unintended anthropogenically assisted transfer of non-Antarctic species into human facilities on the continent, with some such species proving extremely difficult to eradicate if they successfully establish within these facilities.

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Antarctic LepidopteraAntarctic PeninsulaFerraz Stationinvasive insect
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Biological Sciences
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Antarctic Science , Volume 34 , Issue 5 , October 2022 , pp. 361 - 364
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antarctic Science Ltd

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