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Dioryctria pygmaeella

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Dioryctria pygmaeella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Dioryctria
Species:
D. pygmaeella
Binomial name
Dioryctria pygmaeella

Dioryctria pygmaeella, the baldcypress coneworm moth, is a species of snout moth. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1887 and is restricted to the coastal plains of the eastern United States and eastern Texas.[2]

There are up to three generations per year.

The larvae feed within the cones of Taxodium distichum and Taxodium ascendens.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  2. ^ Whitehouse, C.M.; Roe, A.D.; Strong, W.B.; Evenden, M.L.; Sperling, F.A.H. (2011). "Biology and management of North American cone-feeding Dioryctria species". The Canadian Entomologist. 143 (1): 1–34. doi:10.4039/n10-045.
  3. ^ "The Dioryctria (Pyralidae) species of Louisiana" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-16.