Phricanthes flexilineana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863. The species was described from Sri Lanka, northern Queensland in Australia and the Seychelles, but has a much wider range, which includes Madagascar, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, New Guinea, the Philippines and Taiwan. It is also widely distributed in the tropical parts of North and South America., 2011: Systematic and faunistic data on Neotropical Tortricidae: Phricanthini, Tortricini, Atteriini, Polyorthini, Chlidanotini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 39 (154): 161-181.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Tetracera volubilis, Dillenia indica and Davilla nitia.Confirmation of the Old World species Phricanthles flexilineana (Walker, 1863) in the New World tropics (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Phricanthini)
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