Biology:Dioryctria tumicolella

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Short description: Species of moth

Dioryctria tumicolella
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Dioryctria
Species:
D. tumicolella
Binomial name
Dioryctria tumicolella
Mutuura, Munroe & Ross, 1969

Dioryctria tumicolella 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 from British Columbia, Canada , but is possibly present in all of north-western North America.[1]

The wingspan is 12.5–15 mm.

The larvae have been recorded feeding within blister rust (Peridermium) swellings on Pinus ponderosa.[2]

References

  1. Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas et al. (2003–2020). "GlobIZ search". http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx. 
  2. "Species Page - Dioryctria tumicolella". University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum. http://www.entomology.ualberta.ca/searching_species_details.php?s=4946. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5279564 entry