Dioryctria mendacella

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Dioryctria mendacella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Dioryctria
Species:
D. mendacella
Binomial name
Dioryctria mendacella
(Staudinger, 1859) [1]
Synonyms
  • Nephopterix mendacellaStaudinger, 1859
  • Euzophera maritanellaMillière, 1875

Dioryctria mendacella is a species of snout moth in the genus Dioryctria . It was described by Staudinger in 1859, and is known from the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France and Croatia, Greece and Cyprus. [2]

The wingspan is 28–31 mm.

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References

  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  2. "Fauna Europaea". Faunaeur.org. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2011-12-16.