Acrobasis kearfottella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Acrobasis
- Species
- Acrobasis kearfottella
- Scientific Name
- Acrobasis kearfottella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Acrobasis kearfottella
Acrobasis kearfottella, Kearfott's acrobasis moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Acrobasis. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1905, and is known from Quebec, Canada, and the eastern United States.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Carya species, including Carya tomentosa, Carya glabra, Carya ovata and Carya cordiformis. They feed on the newly expanding leaflets of their host plant from within a tube. The species overwinters in the larval stage. Pupation takes place within the tube.
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- Acrobasis indigenella
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- Acrobasis klimeschi
- Acrobasis laticinctella
- Acrobasis legatea
- Acrobasis lienpingialis
- Acrobasis lutulentella
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- Acrobasis malgachiella
- Acrobasis malifoliella
- Acrobasis marmorea
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- Acrobasis minimella
- Acrobasis minutalis
- Acrobasis mniaropis
- Acrobasis obliqua
- Acrobasis obrutella
- Acrobasis obtusella
- Acrobasis ochrifasciella
- Acrobasis pallicornella
- Acrobasis palliolella
- Acrobasis pirivorella
- Acrobasis porphyrella
- Acrobasis praefectella
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- Acrobasis subflavella
- Acrobasis tricolorella
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