| Dioryctria erythropasa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Dioryctria |
| Species: | D. erythropasa |
| Binomial name | |
| Dioryctria erythropasa (Dyar, 1914) [1] | |
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Dioryctria erythropasa is a species of snout moth in the genus Dioryctria . It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1914 and is found from Arizona [2] south along the Mexican Pacific coast to Central America.
The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralidae as a subfamily, making the combined group one of the largest families in the Lepidoptera. The latest review by Eugene G. Munroe & Solis, in Kristensen (1999) retains the Crambidae as a full family of Pyraloidea.
Dioryctria is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1846.
Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. was an American entomologist.
The wingspan is 23–32 mm. The forewing ground color is variable, but generally with white maculations on a background of reddish brown and often heavily shaded with gray. The hindwings vary from light brown to light gray brown. There are two to three generations per year.
The wingspan of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777-200 has a wingspan of 60.93 metres, and a wandering albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of 3.63 metres, the official record for a living bird. The term wingspan, more technically extent, is also used for other winged animals such as pterosaurs, bats, insects, etc., and other fixed-wing aircraft such as ornithopters. In humans, the term wingspan also refers to the arm span, which is distance between the length from one end of an individual's arms to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90º angle. Former professional basketball player Manute Bol stands at 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) and owns one of the largest wingspans at 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m).
The larvae feed on Pinus chiapensis , Pinus douglasiana , Pinus lawsonii , Pinus leiophylla , Pinus maximartinezii , Pinus maximinoi , Pinus michoacana and Pinus oocarpa . They feed inside the conelets and cones. Feeding causes clumps of resin mixed with frass to accumulate on the cone surface. The larval gallery is irregular and goes through the cone axis, seeds and scales. Sometimes the larvae feed on seeds, construct a more or less spiral gallery and do not bore the axis. The larvae have also been recorded feeding in the cankers caused by Cronartium conigenum . Here, they make irregular galleries, pushing out frass that accumulates with silk and resin on the surface of the canker. Young larvae are brown, while mature larvae are bright green with small but obvious dark spots. [3]
Pinus chiapensis is a pine tree species in the Pinaceae family, and is commonly known as Chiapas pine, in Spanish as pino blanco, pinabete, or ocote. Chiapas pine was formerly considered to be a variant of pinus strobus, but is now understood to be a separate species.
Pinus douglasiana is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. It is found only in Mexico. A common name is Douglas pine, but that name is often applied to the more widespread species Pseudotsuga menziesii which is also known as Douglas fir.
Pinus lawsonii, Lawson's pine, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. It is found only in Mexico.
