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]
| Dioryctria pygmaeella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Dioryctria |
| Species: | D. pygmaeella
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| Binomial name | |
| Dioryctria pygmaeella | |
There are up to three generations per year.
The larvae feed within the cones of Taxodium distichum and Taxodium ascendens.[3]
References
edit- ^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Dioryctria (Pyralidae) species of Louisiana" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-16.