| Dioryctria yatesi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Dioryctria |
| Species: | D. yatesi |
| Binomial name | |
| Dioryctria yatesi | |
Dioryctria yatesi, the mountain pine coneworm, is a species of snout moth in the genus Dioryctria . It was described by Akira Mutuura and Eugene G. Munroe in 1979 and is limited to the mountains of the coastal south-eastern United States and Tennessee. [2]
The larvae feed on Pinus pungens . They bore the cones of their host plant. [3]