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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 » Dioryctria » Dioryctria banksiella - Hodges#5858 (Dioryctria banksiella)

Species Dioryctria banksiella - Hodges#5858

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · 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 Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)

Family Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)

Subfamily Phycitinae

Tribe Phycitini

Genus Dioryctria

Species banksiella (Dioryctria banksiella - Hodges#5858)

Hodges Number

5858

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dioryctria banksiella Mutuura, Munroe & Ross, 1969 (1)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet refers to the host plant Pinus banksiana Lambert. (1)

Numbers

The genus Dioryctria includes more than 40 species in America north of Mexico. (2)

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)

Range

California to British Columbia, and throughout the Northeast.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults are most often reported from July to September. (2)

Food

Peridermium banksiana Lambert. (Jack pine). (1)

Life Cycle

Life cycle. (4)

Print References

Neunzig, H.H., 2003. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.5, p. 190, pl. 7.18-19.(5)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.	American species of Dioryctria (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Western Canadian species of the Zimmermani group Akira Mutuura, Eugene Munroe, D. A. Ross. 1969. The Canadian Entomologist 101(10): 1009-1023.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

4.	Dioryctria banksiella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in the western gall rust, Endocronartium harknessii (Basidiomycetes: Uredinales) H. R. Wong. 1972. The Canadian Entomologist 104: 251-255.

5.	The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 15.5. Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae H. H. Neunzig. 2003. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 August, 2012 - 1:39am
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 10:19pm

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