Biology:Dioryctria taedivorella

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Short description: Species of moth

Dioryctria taedivorella
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Dioryctria
Species:
D. taedivorella
Binomial name
Dioryctria taedivorella
Neunzig & Leidy, 1989[1]

Dioryctria taedivorella, the lesser loblolly pineconeworm moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Dioryctria. It was described by Herbert H. Neunzig and Nancy Antoine Leidy in 1989, and is known from North America, where it is found from eastern Virginia and North Carolina to northern Alabama and Mississippi.[2]

The larvae feed on Pinus taeda (loblolly pine).[3]

References


Wikidata ☰ Q5279562 entry