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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Incurvarioidea » Yucca Moths (Prodoxidae) » Prodoxinae » Greya » Greya politella - Hodges#194 (Greya politella)

Species Greya politella - Hodges#194

Classification · Hodges Number · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Incurvarioidea
Family Prodoxidae (Yucca Moths)
Subfamily Prodoxinae
Genus Greya
Species politella (Greya politella - Hodges#194)
Hodges Number
194
Size
Wing expanse 11.5-20 mm
Range
From southern British Columbia to California Channel Islands and southern Sierra Nevada. From the Pacific coast to Idaho and Colorado.
Food
The host is Lithophragma parviflorum. The female oviposits down into the ovary, and the larva feeds first on seeds and later after hibernation on vegetative parts. (Dr. Olle Pellmyr)
Remarks
According to Dr. Olle Pellmyr the adult moth pollinates its host while the larvae feeds off the seeds. There is an article "Multiple Occurrences of Mutualism in the Yucca Moth Lineage" by Olle Pellmyr and John N. Thompson, Vol. 89, Issue 7 (April 1, 1992) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Internet References
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Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 17 October, 2007 - 12:46pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 10 May, 2009 - 1:08pm

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