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Dioryctria reniculelloides (Spruce Coneworm)

Wikipedia Abstract

Dioryctria reniculelloides, the spruce coneworm, is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae. It is found from Nova Scotia to Alaska, south in the east to New York, and south in the west to California and New Mexico. It was recorded from China in 2009. Occasionally abundant, often in conjunction with epidemics of the spruce budworm, the spruce coneworm (Dioryctria reniculelloides Mutuura & Munroe) occurs through most or all of the range of spruce in North America, feeding on new foliage and cones of spruce, and often balsam fir (Ives and Wong 1988). When abundant, it can be a serious pest “particularly on white spruce (Hedlin et al. 1980).
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Prey / Diet

Abies arctica (Canadian spruce)[1]
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas fir)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0