Sesame leafroller
The sesame leafroller is a small moth with pale yellow wings and rusty brown lines. It comes from warm parts of Asia and Africa. It is a traveller, and its long trips take it to many other places too.
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Fun facts
It is a migrating moth, which means it flies long distances to new places.
Its front wings are pale yellow, but the edges and veins are coloured a rusty brown.
Its wings are only about 2 centimetres across.
Its caterpillars have been found on snapdragons, toadflax and trumpetbush.
Most asked questions about Sesame leafroller
?Where does the sesame leafroller live?
In warm parts of Asia and Africa, but it travels and turns up in other places too.
?How big is the sesame leafroller?
It is small. Its wings are 19 to 22 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Antigastra catalaunalis
- Named by
- Duponchel, 1833
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Antigastra catalaunalis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Ravi Vaidyanathan. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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