Dioryctria pygmaeella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Dioryctria
- Species
- Dioryctria pygmaeella
- Scientific Name
- Dioryctria pygmaeella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dioryctria pygmaeella
Dioryctria pygmaeella, the baldcypress coneworm moth, is a species of snout moth. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1887 and is restricted to the coastal plains of the eastern United States and eastern Texas.
There are up to three generations per year.
The larvae feed within the cones of Taxodium distichum and Taxodium ascendens.
...Dioryctria pygmaeella in languages:
- English
- Bald cypress coneworm
- English
- baldcypress coneworm
- English
- Bald Cypress Coneworm Moth
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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