Ostrinia marginalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Ostrinia
- Species
- Ostrinia marginalis
- Scientific Name
- Ostrinia marginalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ostrinia marginalis
Ostrinia marginalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Newfoundland and Maine west to Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Yukon. The habitat consists of bogs and marshes.
The wingspan is 15–17 mm.
The larvae feed on Rumex and Polygonum species.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ostrinia erythrialis
- Ostrinia furnacalis
- Ostrinia kasmirica
- Ostrinia kurentzovi
- Ostrinia latipennis
- Ostrinia marginalis
- Ostrinia nubilalis
- Ostrinia obumbratalis
- Ostrinia orientalis
- Ostrinia palustralis
- Ostrinia penitalis
- Ostrinia peregrinalis
- Ostrinia quadripunctalis
- Ostrinia sanguinealis
- Ostrinia scapulalis
- Ostrinia zaguliaevi
- Ostrinia zealis