Dioryctria cambiicola

Dioryctria cambiicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Genus:	Dioryctria
Species:	D. cambiicola
Binomial name
	Dioryctria cambiicola; (Dyar, 1914)
Synonyms
	Pinipestis cambiicola Dyar, 1914;

Dioryctria cambiicola, the western pine moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Dioryctria. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1914^[1] and is found in North America from British Columbia and Alberta south to California and New Mexico.

The forewings are reddish brown, while the hindwings are dusky brown.

The larvae feed on Pinus ponderosa and Pinus contorta. They bore in the cambium under the bark and occasionally in twigs, buds and at the base of cones.^[2]

References[]

^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
^ "Species Page - Dioryctria cambiicola". Entomology Collection. University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum. Archived from the original on September 12, 2014.

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[Pyraloidea_db-1] "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved September 9, 2011.

[2] "Species Page - Dioryctria cambiicola". Entomology Collection. University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum. Archived from the original on September 12, 2014.

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