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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae » Phycitini » Ephestia Series » Vitula

Genus Vitula

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Remarks · Internet References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)
Family Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)
Subfamily Phycitinae
Tribe Phycitini
No Taxon (Ephestia Series)
Genus Vitula
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Vitula Ragonot, 1887
Numbers
Vitula includes 8 species in America north of Mexico.
Remarks
"In his MONA monograph, Neunzig (1990) reports that larvae are found in nests of Bumble Bees, Honey Bees and possibly also of other Hymenoptera. They form tubelike protective enclosure of silk and feed mostly on pollen, honey and immature Hymenoptera." Comment by Bob Patterson, 31 May, 2007 (here)
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Contributed by Robin McLeod on 2 June, 2007 - 10:08am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 13 August, 2014 - 9:40am

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