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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Clearwing Moths (Sesioidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Sesiinae » Synanthedonini » Synanthedon » Pitch Mass Borer - Hodges#2585 (Synanthedon pini)

Species Synanthedon pini - Pitch Mass Borer - Hodges#2585

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Sesioidea (Clearwing Moths)
Family Sesiidae (Clearwing Moths)
Subfamily Sesiinae
Tribe Synanthedonini
Genus Synanthedon
Species pini (Pitch Mass Borer - Hodges#2585)
Hodges Number
2585
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Synanthedon pini (Kellicott, 1881)
Aegeria pini Kellicott, 1881
Vespamima pini
Harmonia pini
Parharmonia pini
* phylogenetic sequence #080750
Explanation of Names
Pini is Latin for "pine." (1)
Size
Wingspan: ♂ 28-32 mm, ♀ 32-34 mm. (2)
Larva to about 25-27 mm (Kellicott, 1881).
Pupa about 18 mm (Kellicott, 1881).
Identification
Larva - body white with a light brown head. (Kellicott, 1881).
Range
Midwestern states east to southeastern Canada, New England south through the Appalachians. (2)
Season
The males are strongly attracted to ZZOH/EZOH 50:50 pheromone lures and are on the wing starting in late June in Michigan.
Food
Larvae bore under the bark of pine and spruce, principally eastern white pine (Pinus strobus, Pinaceae) (2), sometimes Norway spruce (Picea abies, Pinaceae). Larvae typically bore in large trees below a broken branch or scar as high as 40' up the trunk (Kellicott, 1881). (2)
Remarks
It is found rarely in insect collections and museums. Trees with active larvae have pitch mass swellings on the tree trunk with a white, powdery appearance. (3), (2)
Print References
Beuttenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 264-265, pl.30, f.13 (4)
Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 130-131 (2)
Kellicott, D.S. 1881. Observations of several species of Ageriadae inhabiting the vicinity of Buffalo, N.Y.. The Canadian Entomologist 13(1): 5-7
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae.
George P. Engelhardt. 1946. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 1-222, pl.1-32.
3.Synanthedon pini (kellicott)
4.Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico.
William Beutenmüller. 1901. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 218-352, pl.29-36.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 24 January, 2008 - 8:48pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 20 June, 2013 - 12:29am

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