Tegeticula yuccasella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Prodoxidae
- Genus
- Tegeticula
- Species
- Tegeticula yuccasella
- Scientific Name
- Tegeticula yuccasella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tegeticula yuccasella
Tegeticula yuccasella, the yucca moth, is a moth of the family Prodoxidae. The species was first described by Charles Valentine Riley in 1872. It can be found in North America from Texas to southern Canada.
The wingspan is 18–27 mm.
The larvae feed on Yucca filamentosa, Yucca smalliana, Yucca flaccida, Yucca glauca, Yucca arkansana, Yucca constricta, Yucca rupicola, Yucca pallida, Yucca reverchoni and Yucca aloifolia.
...Tegeticula yuccasella in languages:
- English
- Yucca Moth
- French
- teigne du yucca
- Russian
- Юкковая моль
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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












































































































































