Dioryctria abietella

TaxID: 305662

Basic Information

Dioryctria abietella

Dark Pine Knot-horn, spruce coneworm

Dioryctria abietella is a moth of the family Pyralidae. It is found in Europe. The wingspan is 27 C33 mm.The forewings are fuscous, irrorated with whitish and dark fuscous; first and second lines whitish, dark-edged, waved, nearly parallel, hardly oblique; two darker shades rather before and beyond first line, not reaching costa; a small whitish discal spot, suffusedly darker-edged. Hindwings in male whitish-fuscous, in female light fuscous, darker terminally. Larva dark grey or reddish-brown; dorsal line double, pale; lateral and spiracular lines pale; head and plate of 2 dark brown: in shoots of Pinus sylvestris, not causing resinous exudation. The moth flies in one generation from the end of May to September.[1] The caterpillars feed on pine and other conifers.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Pyralidae

Dioryctria

abietella

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Dioryctria abietella
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(c) Michał Brzeziński@BY-NC
Dioryctria abietella
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(c) Merja@BY-NC
Dioryctria abietella
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(c) Thomas Brooks@BY-NC-SA
Dioryctria abietella
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(c) Rasmus Allesoee@BY-NC
Dioryctria abietella
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(c) Rasmus Allesoee@BY-NC

Morphological Features

Adults are dirty brown in appearance, with a body length of 13.59 ± 0.115 mm and an average wing expanse of 29.0 ± 1.00 mm.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Scholarly article
Citation:

T.D VERMA. 2024. BIOECOLOGY OF DIORYCTRIA ABIETELLA DENIS AND SCHIFF. A PEST OF CONIFERS IN THE NORTH-WESTERN HIMALAYA. BIOTROPIA

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (2 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Argentina Absent 2019
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (38 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

38
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Belarus Present —
Switzerland Present —
Czechia Present —
Germany Present —
Denmark Present —
Spain Present —
Estonia Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR15311582 Male thorax Adult male 33824611 China: Zixi mountain, Chuxionng, Yunnan
SRR15311581 Female abdomen Adult female 29786409 China: Zixi mountain, Chuxionng, Yunnan
SRR15311580 Male abdomen Adult male 30097133 China: Zixi mountain, Chuxionng, Yunnan

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature