Atriplex ''Atriplex'' () is a plant genus of about 250 species, known by the common names of saltbush and orache (; also spelled orach). It belongs to the subfamily Chenopodioideae of the family Amaranthaceae ''s.l.''. The genus is quite variable and w ...

'' species are used as food plants by the

larva A larva (; plural larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. The ...

e of some

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

species, including: ;

Monophagous A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet). A specialist species can thrive only in a narrow range of env ...

species which feed exclusively on ''Atriplex'': *''

Coleophora ''Coleophora'' is a very large genus of moths of the family Coleophoridae. It contains some 1,350 described species. The genus is represented on all continents, but the majority are found in the Nearctic and Palaearctic regions. Many authors hav ...

'' — case-bearers: ::*'' C. crassicornella'' (feeds on '' A. halimus'') ::*'' C. moeniacella'' (feeds on '' A. vestita'') ::*'' C. plurifoliella'' (feeds on ''A. halimus'') ::*'' C. serinipennella'' ::*'' C. vestianella'' ;

Polyphagous Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, or -vorous from Latin ''vorare'', meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Greek φαγε ...

species which feed on ''Atriplex'' among other plants: *

Blood-vein The blood-vein (''Timandra comae'') is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Anton Schmidt in 1931. Distribution It has a scattered distribution in western and central Europe north of the Alps. In the British Isle ...

(''Timandra griseata'') *''

Chrysoesthia drurella ''Chrysoesthia drurella'' is a moth from the family Gelechiidae. In is found in most of Europe, Russia and North America. ''et al.'' 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes ( ...

'' *''

'' — case-bearers: ::*'' C. adspersella'' ::*'' C. annulatella'' ::*'' C. atriplicis'' ::*'' C. parthenica'' (recorded on ''A. halimus'') ::*'' C. salinella'' ::*'' C. saxicolella'' ::*'' C. sternipennella'' ::*'' C. versurella'' (recorded on '' A. littoralis'') * Nutmeg moth — (''Discestra trifolii'') * Mojave sootywing — (''Hesperopsis libya'')

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*{{cite web , last1=Robinson , first1=Gaden S. , last2=Ackery , first2=Phillip R. , last3=Kitching , first3=Ian J. , last4=Beccaloni , first4=George W. , last5=Hernández , first5=Luis M. , name-list-style=amp , date=2010 , url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/list.dsml?&PGenus=Atriplex&sort=Family , title=Hostplant Genus: ''Atriplex'' , website=HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants , publisher=

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*Lepidoptera

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