Biology:Dioryctria contortella
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Short description: Species of moth
| Dioryctria contortella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Dioryctria |
| Species: | D. contortella
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| Binomial name | |
| Dioryctria contortella Mutuura, Munroe & Ross, 1969
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Dioryctria contortella is a species of snout moth in the genus Dioryctria. It was described by Akira Mutuura, Eugene G. Munroe and Douglas Alexander Ross in 1969, and is known in North America from British Columbia, Alberta and Washington (state) .[1]
Adults have black and white forewings with a reddish-brown basal area.
The larvae bore galleries in blister rust swelling caused by Peridermium species on Pinus contorta.[2]
References
- ↑ "GlobIZ search". http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- ↑ "Species Page - Dioryctria contortella". University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum. http://entomology.museums.ualberta.ca/searching_species_details.php?s=4942.
Wikidata ☰ Q5279505 entry
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