''Cactoblastis bucyrus'' is a species of
snout moth in the genus ''
Cactoblastis
''Cactoblastis'' is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1901 and is known from Argentina, Peru, and Brazil.
Species
* ''Cactoblastis bucyrus'' Dyar, 1922
* ''Cactoblastis cactorum'' (Berg, 1885) – South Amer ...
''. It was described by
Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1922, and is known from
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
(
Tucumán, Tapia,
Mendoza,
Catamarca,
Andalgalá
Andalgalá is a city in the west-center of the province of Catamarca, Argentina, located in a valley near the Sierra de Aconquija, 260 km from the provincial capital San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca. It has about 14,000 inhabitants as per ...
).
The larvae feed on ''
Trichocereus'', ''
Echinopsis
''Echinopsis'' is a large genus of cacti native
Native may refer to:
People
* Jus soli, citizenship by right of birth
* Indigenous peoples, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory
** ...
'' and ''
Denmoza
''Denmoza'' is a genus of cactus found in Argentina, comprising only 2 species. The name of the genus is an anagram of the western province of Mendoza. These species grow slowly and stay globulous during a long period before becoming shortly c ...
'' species.
Cactus Moths and Their Relatives
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References
Phycitini
Moths described in 1922
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