''Dioryctria yatesi'', the mountain pine coneworm, is a species of
snout moth in the genus ''
Dioryctria
''Dioryctria'' is a genus of Pyralidae, snout moths. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1846.
Species
* ''Dioryctria abietella'' (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
* ''Dioryctria abietivorella'' (Grote, 1878)
* ''Dioryctria adamsi'' N ...
''. It was described by Akira Mutuura and
Eugene G. Munroe
Eugene Gordon Munroe (8 September 1919 – 31 May 2008) was a Canadian entomologist who discovered numerous species of insects. He worked for the Insect Systematics and Biological Control Unit, Entomology Division in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Munro ...
in 1979 and is limited to the mountains of the coastal south-eastern United States and
Tennessee.
The larvae feed on ''
Pinus pungens''. They bore the cones of their host plant.
References
Moths described in 1979
yatesi
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