Species Eucopina gloriola - White Pine Shoot-borer - Hodges#3066

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Eucopina gloriola (Heinrich, 1931) (1)

Eucosma gloriola Heinrich, 1931

Heinrich (1931) listed the wingspans 12-15 mm.

Heinrich (1931) original description as Eucosma gloriola is online in the print references.

The main flight period is April to July.

Eastern white, jack, red, Scotch, Austrian, and mugho pines.(2)

Eggs are laid on needle sheaths on new shoots or laterals during May and early June. Young larvae bore into the pith a few inches above the node of the new shoot and construct tunnels several inches long toward the tip. Infested shoots are eventually girdled from the inside. The full-grown larva bores a hole to the outside then drops to the ground. There is spins a pupation cocoon in the litter or just below the soil surface.(2)

Overwinters as a pupa.(2)

Considered a serious pest beacuse the larvae damage the shoots of conifers.

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States: p. 106.144. (3)

Gilligan, T.M., Wright, D.J., Munz, J., Yakobson, K. & M.P. Simmons, 2014. Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of Eucosma (Hübner) and related genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini). Systematic Entomology 39(1): 61. (1)

Heinrich, C., 1931. A new Pine moth from Connecticut. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 33: 196.

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Penn State College of Entomology

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)