Dioryctria contortella

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Dioryctria contortella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Dioryctria
Species:
D. contortella
Binomial name
Dioryctria contortella
Mutuura, Munroe & Ross, 1969

Dioryctria contortella is a species of snout moth in the genus Dioryctria . It was described by Akira Mutuura, Eugene G. Munroe and Douglas Alexander Ross in 1969, and is known in North America from British Columbia, Alberta and Washington. [1]

Adults have black and white forewings with a reddish-brown basal area.

The larvae bore galleries in blister rust swelling caused by Peridermium species on Pinus contorta . [2]

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References

  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  2. "Species Page - Dioryctria contortella". Entomology Collection. University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019.