Carmenta tecta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sesiidae
- Genus
- Carmenta
- Species
- Carmenta tecta
- Scientific Name
- Carmenta tecta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Carmenta tecta
Carmenta tecta, the mistletoe stem borer, is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It was described by Henry Edwards in 1882. It is known from the United States, including Arizona.
Larvae are known from live oak groves with colonies of Phoradendron orbiculatum, on which the larvae feed.
...Carmenta tecta in languages:
- English
- Mistletoe stem borer
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Carmenta albociliata
- Carmenta angarodes
- Carmenta anthracipennis
- Carmenta apache
- Carmenta arizonae
- Carmenta armasata
- Carmenta auritincta
- Carmenta aurora
- Carmenta basalis
- Carmenta bassiformis
- Carmenta corni
- Carmenta deipyla
- Carmenta dimorpha
- Carmenta engelhardti
- Carmenta fulvopyga
- Carmenta giliae
- Carmenta guatemalena
- Carmenta guyanensis
- Carmenta haematica
- Carmenta hipsides
- Carmenta infuscata
- Carmenta ithacae
- Carmenta laeta
- Carmenta laurelae
- Carmenta leptosoma
- Carmenta lytaea
- Carmenta maeonia
- Carmenta manilia
- Carmenta mariona
- Carmenta mimosa
- Carmenta mimuli
- Carmenta odda
- Carmenta ogalala
- Carmenta pallene
- Carmenta phoradendri
- Carmenta phyllis
- Carmenta producta
- Carmenta prosopis
- Carmenta pyralidiformis
- Carmenta querci
- Carmenta rubricincta
- Carmenta ruficaudis
- Carmenta sanborni
- Carmenta subaerea
- Carmenta suffusata
- Carmenta surinamensis
- Carmenta tecta
- Carmenta texana
- Carmenta tildeni
- Carmenta verecunda
- Carmenta wagneri
- Carmenta welchelorum
- Carmenta wellerae
- Carmenta wielgusi
- Carmenta wildishorum