Tegeticula baccatella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Prodoxidae
- Genus
- Tegeticula
- Species
- Tegeticula baccatella
- Scientific Name
- Tegeticula baccatella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tegeticula baccatella
Tegeticula baccatella is a moth of the family Prodoxidae. It is found in the United States in Arizona and New Mexico and adjacent regions of California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. It is also found in western Texas (up to Presidio County). The habitat consists of shrub desert, rocky hillsides and open pine forests with outcrops.
The wingspan is 19.5–28 mm.
The larvae feed on Yucca baccata, Yucca thornberi and Yucca confinis. They feed on developing seeds.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Tegeticula altiplanella
- Tegeticula antithetica
- Tegeticula baccatella
- Tegeticula californica
- Tegeticula carnerosanella
- Tegeticula cassandra
- Tegeticula corruptrix
- Tegeticula elatella
- Tegeticula extranea
- Tegeticula intermedius
- Tegeticula maculata
- Tegeticula maderae
- Tegeticula mojavella
- Tegeticula paradoxa
- Tegeticula synthetica
- Tegeticula yuccasella