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Coleotechnites
''Coleotechnites'' is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae described by Vactor Tousey Chambers Vactor Tousey Chambers (commonly V.T. Chambers) (6 August 1830, Burlington, Kentucky – 7 August 1883, in Covington, Kentucky) was an American entomologist who specialized in Microlepidoptera. He along with James Brackenridge Clemens, was a pione ... in 1880. One of the best known species is the lodgepole needle miner (''C. milleri''), a serious pest of forest trees in North America. Species *'' Coleotechnites albicostata'' (Freeman, 1965) (Eucordylea) *'' Coleotechnites alnifructella'' (Busck, 1915) (Recurvaria) *'' Coleotechnites apicitripunctella'' (Clemens, 1860) (Recurvaria) *'' Coleotechnites ardas'' (Freeman, 1960) (Evagora) *'' Coleotechnites argentiabella'' (Chambers, 1874) (Gelechia) *'' Coleotechnites atrupictella'' (Dietz, 1900) (Eucordylea) *'' Coleotechnites australis'' (Freeman, 1963) (Pulicalvaria) *'' Coleotechnites bacchariella'' (Keifer, 1927) (Recurvaria) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Eryngiella
''Coleotechnites eryngiella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Wisconsin. The wingspan is about 15 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from early April to September, suggesting at least two and possibly multiple generations per year. The larvae feed on ''Eryngium aquaticum'' and ''Eryngium yuccifolium ''Eryngium yuccifolium'', known as rattlesnake master, button eryngo, and button snake-root, is a perennial herb of the parsley family native to the tallgrass prairies of central and eastern North America. It grows from Minnesota east to Ohio an ...''. They bore tunnels into the ovaries and developing mericarps of the flowers of their host plant. The larvae are pink and white-striped. References Moths described in 1926 Coleotechnites {{Litini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Condignella
''Coleotechnites condignella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California, Arizona, South Carolina and Florida. The wingspan is 13–15 mm. The forewings are white, thickly mottled with black and with a conspicuous deep black longitudinal streak from the base of the costa through the middle of the wing nearly to the apex, partly edged with white scales. There is a thin, faint arrow-shaped transverse white fascia, pointing toward the apex at the apical fourth and a short black dash on the middle of the wing between the costal edge and the central longitudinal black streak. There are three groups of raised scales, predominantly black, on the dorsal part of the wing below the central black streak. The hindwings are light fuscous, in males with a long ochreous yellow tuft of dilated hairs on the base of the dorsum. The larvae feed on ''Pinus ponderosa ''Pinus ponderosa'', commonly known as the ponderosa pine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Chillcotti
''Coleotechnites chillcotti'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. The larvae feed on the needles of ''Pinus palustris The longleaf pine (''Pinus palustris'') is a pine species native to the Southeastern United States, found along the coastal plain from East Texas to southern Virginia, extending into northern and central Florida. In this area it is also known as ...''. References Moths described in 1963 Coleotechnites {{Litini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Blastovora
''Coleotechnites blastovora'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan. The larvae feed on ''Picea'' and ''Abies Firs (''Abies'') are a genus of 48–56 species of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae. They are found on mountains throughout much of North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The genus is most closely related to ...'' species, occasionally mining the needles of their host plant. References Moths described in 1962 Coleotechnites {{Litini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Edulicola
''Coleotechnites edulicola'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from New Mexico and southern Utah and possibly Colorado. The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are mottled dark brown and white. The hindwings are grey. Adults are on wing in June and July in one generation per year. The larvae feed on ''Pinus ponderosa'' and ''Pinus edulis ''Pinus edulis'', the Colorado pinyon, two-needle piñon, pinyon pine, or simply piñon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group whose ancestor was a member of the Madro-Tertiary Geoflora (a group of drought resistant trees) and is native to the Unite ...''. Young larvae bore into green needles, feed within them, and overwinter there as second and third instar larvae. References External linksTwo New Pine Feeding species of Coleotechnites Coleotechnites Moths described in 1978 {{Litini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Elucidella
''Coleotechnites elucidella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae described by William Barnes and August Busck in 1920. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ... is 11–13 mm. The forewings are light gray with three ill-defined and obscure blackish dashes on the costa, one at the basal fourth, one on the middle and one at the apical third. These black dashes are edged with white and are faintly continued across the wing, the first as an outwardly oblique narrow and broken fascia, the two others straight across the wing. Each of these fascia is emphasized by tufts of raised black scales, edged with white, two of which on each fascia are larger than the other markings. The hindwings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Atrupictella
''Coleotechnites atrupictella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alberta, British Columbia, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, New York, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Saskatchewan and Washington. The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings have blackish markings, including at the extreme costa, from the base to one-fifth its length, an oblique fascia beginning at one-fifth from the costa and reaching the dorsal margin at one-third, less distinct at the latter, bisinuate externally and shading off gradually to the ground colour at the base. A broad and less oblique fascia is found before the middle, narrowed toward and not attaining the dorsal margin, bi-sinuate toward the base. A third fascia, narrower than the last, at a little less than two-thirds the length, slightly oblique, becoming narrower toward the dorsal margin without attaining it. This fascia is further removed from the base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Florae
''Coleotechnites florae'', the coleotechnites flower moth, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Alberta, Arkansas, British Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Washington. The larvae are known to feed on ''Pinus contorta ''Pinus contorta'', with the common names lodgepole pine and shore pine, and also known as twisted pine, and contorta pine, is a common tree in western North America. It is common near the ocean shore and in dry montane forests to the subalpine ...''. References Moths described in 1961 Coleotechnites {{Litini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Apicitripunctella
The green hemlock needleminer,Maier, Chris T. (2004"Green Hemlock Needleminer (''Coleotechnites apicitripunctella'')"''Caterpillars on the foliage of conifers in the northeastern United States'' United States Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Morgantown, West Virginia, hemlock leaf minerLeonard, David E. and Burnham, Charles M. (1998) ''A history of forest and shade tree pest management in Massachusetts'' Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, Boston, Massachusetts, page 90, or baldcypress webwormHartman, John Richard ''et al.'' (2000) ''Pirone's tree maintenance'' (7th edition) Oxford University Press, Oxford, Englandpage 332 (''Coleotechnites apicitripunctella'') is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the eastern parts of the United States, as well as eastern Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Milleri
''Coleotechnites milleri'' (lodgepole needleminer) is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the western parts of the United States, as well as Canada. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ... is 12–15 mm. The forewings are white, strongly and irregularly suffused with black, especially on the costal and apical areas. There is a large, poorly defined, black spot on the costa beyond the middle and a smaller one just before the middle. Opposite the former is an even less well defined dorsal black spot and there are four small tufts of raised black scales, one on the middle of the cell, one at the end of the cell and two below these on the fold. There are also scattered black dots around the apical edge. The hindwings are whitish fuscous. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Gallicola
''Coleotechnites gallicola'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Colorado and California. The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are light fuscous with three black costal dashes, one near the base, one on the middle and one at the apical third. These black costal spots are exteriorly edged by thin, ill-defined white lines, which continue obliquely across the wing, the two outer ones meeting on the termen just below the apex. There are two longitudinal black streaks on the middle of the wing, one just before and one after the end of the cell. Before and below the first of these is a small group of slightly raised, rust-red scales on the fold. The hindwings are light fuscous, in males with a large expansible, bright yellow hair tuft at the base. The larvae have been recorded in galls of the sawfly '' Euura macgillivrayi'' on ''Salix Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', compr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleotechnites Gibsonella
''Coleotechnites gibsonella'' (common juniper leafminer) is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the north-eastern parts of the United States and Canada. The type specimen was found in Hull, Quebec in 1905 by Arthur Gibson. The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are white, shaded with yellowish at the apex and crossed by three oblique dark brown bands. The hindwings are yellowish-gray. There is one generation per year. The larvae feed on ''Juniperus communis ''Juniperus communis'', the common juniper, is a species of small tree or shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae. An evergreen conifer, it has the largest geographical range of any woody plant, with a circumpolar distribution throughout the coo ...''. Young caterpillars mine or hollow the needles of their host at the ends of shoots and tie the dead needles together with silk. In fall, it lines the center of the bundle with silk to make a chamber where it spends the winter. In spring, the caterpillar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |