Detailed Record for Busseola fusca

Common Name: Maize stalk borer

Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Hexapoda / Class Insecta / Sub Class Pterygota / Infra Class Neoptera / Super Order Holometabola / Order Lepidoptera / Family Noctuidae / Genus Busseola

C-value (pg): 0.97

Method: Flow Cytometry

Cell Type: Brain

Standard Species: Drosophila virilis = 0.34pg

References:
Calatayud, P.-A., C. Petit, N. Burlet, S. Dupas, N. Glaser, C. Capdevielle-Dulac, B. Le Ru, E. Jacquin-Joly, L. Kaiser-Arnauld, M. Harry, and C. Vieira (2016). Is genome size of Lepidoptera linked to host plant range?. Enntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 159: 354-361.

Outlinks:
NCBI Taxonomy Browser
Google Images | Altavista | Yahoo
ITIS