Alberada bidentella

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Alberada bidentella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Alberada
Species:
A. bidentella
Binomial name
Alberada bidentella
(Dyar, 1908) [1]
Synonyms
  • Zophodia bidentellaDyar, 1908
  • Eumysia bidentella
  • Zophodia holochloraDyar, 1925

Alberada bidentella is a species of snout moth in the genus Alberada . It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1908, and is known from the south-western United States from Texas westward. [2]

The wingspan is 20–24 mm for males and 19–23 mm for females. [3]

The larvae feed within the stem of Cylindropuntia species. [4]

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