''Photedes inops'', the spartina borer moth, is a species of moth native to North America. The larvae are hosted on ''

Spartina pectinata ''Sporobolus michauxianus'' is a species of cordgrass known as prairie cordgrass, freshwater cordgrass, tall marshgrass, and sloughgrass. It is native to much of North America, including central and eastern Canada and most of the contiguous Unite ...

'', apparently exclusively. It is listed as a species of special concern in the US state of

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

."Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015"
State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved January 31, 2018.

References

Hadeninae Moths described in 1881 {{Hadeninae-stub