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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 » Acrobasis Group » Acrobasis » Tricolored Acrobasis Moth - Hodges#5655 (Acrobasis tricolorella)

Species Acrobasis tricolorella - Tricolored Acrobasis Moth - Hodges#5655

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited

Tricolored Acrobasis Moth - Acrobasis tricolorella

Pyralidae: Acrobasis tricolorella - Acrobasis tricolorella

Acrobasis tricolorella ? - Acrobasis tricolorella

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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

No Taxon (Acrobasis Group)

Genus Acrobasis

Species tricolorella (Tricolored Acrobasis Moth - Hodges#5655)

Hodges Number

5655

Other Common Names

Destructive Pruneworm Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acrobasis tricolorella Grote, 1878

* phylogenetic sequence #167950

Size

forewing length 8 - 11 mm (1)

Identification

Adults - distinguished by lack of a forewing scale ridge and is colorful compared to other Acrobasis, having a white transverse line at the basal one-fourth, usually followed by a rust orange patch, and a postmedial line in sinuate, well defined, and often followed by rust scaling (1)

Larvae - red (1)

Range

southern Canada and northern United States and in the west through the Rocky Mountains states to New Mexico, Arizona, and California (1)

Season

Adults fly June though October (1)

Food

larvae feed on flowers and fruit of Rosaceae, including Prunus, cherries, moutain ash, rose, and Christmas berry (1)

Life Cycle

Larva constructs and lives in a frass tube.

Life cycle images (MJ Hatfield)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 22 March, 2007 - 1:40pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 27 December, 2022 - 2:07pm

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