Species Ancylosis undulatella - Sugarbeet Crown Borer Moth - Hodges#5918

5918

Sugarbeet Crown Borer (larva)

Ancylosis undulatella (Clemens, 1860)

Nephopteryx undulatella Clemens, 1860

Honora fumosella Hulst, 1900

Ephestia oblitella of authors not Zeller, 1848

Honora obsipella Hulst, 1888

Scoparia rubiginalis Walker, [1866]

Hulstia undulatella (Clemens, 1860)

wingspan 16-18 mm

Forewing narrow, light brown to grayish-brown with reddish-brown to black band in basal area above AM line; AM line zizag with two large points; PM line jagged with several small points; AM and PM lines not parallel, pale, outlined in black; median area unmarked except for two black dots near center; dark shading beyond PM line does not reach outer margin hindwing more than twice as broad as forewing, grayish-brown, with darker shading toward outer margin; fringe whitish or pale gray

Ontario and Michigan to Florida, west to California, north to Oregon and Idaho wherever sugarbeets are grown

commercial fields of sugarbeets; adults are attracted to light

adults fly from spring to fall

larvae feed on leaves, leafstems, and crowns of sugarbeets

two generations per year; overwinters as a pupa in the soil; adults emerge in spring and lay eggs around sugarbeet crowns or on leaves and leafstems

The larvae are considered a minor pest of sugarbeets, and usually cause minor damage.

MPG

common name reference (pherobase.com)

classification in subfamily Phycitinae, and synonym history (FUNET)

presence in Florida; list (Michael Thomas, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)

presence in California; list (U. of California at Berkeley)

presence in Utah; list (Utah Lepidopterists' Society)

presence in Michigan; PDF doc - list of Michigan Microlepidoptera (Michigan Entomological Society, U. of Michigan)

presence in Ontario; list (NHIC; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)

Original species description in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, p.205 (unedited OCR of scanned book)