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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 » Oreana » Oreana unicolorella - Hodges#5767 (Oreana unicolorella)

Species Oreana unicolorella - Hodges#5767

Classification · Hodges Number · Identification · Food · Remarks · Internet References
Gray Moth - Oreana unicolorella green caterpillar - fast moving - Oreana unicolorella Distinctive green larva - Oreana unicolorella Bee Moth? - Oreana unicolorella Oreana unicolorella? - Oreana unicolorella Oreana unicolorella - female Oreana unicolorella Oreana unicolorella
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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
Genus Oreana
Species unicolorella (Oreana unicolorella - Hodges#5767)
Hodges Number
5767
Identification
Food
The HOSTS database lists maple, birch, hawthorn, apple, oak, willow, basswood, and elm as larval foodplants.
Remarks
This species is represented on BOLD by a pair of closely related BINs with about 3% sequence divergence, indicating that there is an undescribed cryptic species in this genus.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Mass Moths
Moths of North Carolina
iNaturalist
Neunzig, H. H., 2003. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.5, p. 46; pl. 9-30 (PDF)
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 6 January, 2006 - 5:38am
Additional contributions by Tony-2, ceiseman, marcie oconnor, Blocky
Last updated 30 March, 2023 - 8:26am

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