Oreana unicolorella

Oreana unicolorella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Oreana
Hulst, 1888
Species: O. unicolorella
Binomial name
Oreana unicolorella
(Hulst, 1887)
Synonyms
  • Dioryctria unicolorella Hulst, 1887
  • Myelois leucophaella Hulst, 1892

Oreana is a monotypic snout moth genus described by George Duryea Hulst in 1887. Its only species, Oreana unicolorella, described by Hulst one year earlier, is known from most of North America.[1][2]

The larvae feed on maple, birch, hawthorn, apple, oak, willow, basswood and elm.[3]

References

  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  2. Moth Photographers Group at Mississippi State University
  3. Bug Guide


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