European Pine Shoot Moth
Rhyacionia buoliana (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
European Pine Shoot Moth: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/5904
Synonyms
Hodges #2867 
Tags
Non-native

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21 Records

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Status

Introduced to North America from Europe more than 100 years ago (Bugguide).

Relationships

Larval host plants include Loblolly Pine and other pines (Gilligan, Wright, & Gibson, 2008).

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Source: Wikipedia

"Pine shoot moth" redirects here. For the other moth with this common name, see Dioryctria rubella.

Rhyacionia buoliana
Mounted female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Rhyacionia
Species:
R. buoliana
Binomial name
Rhyacionia buoliana
Synonyms
  • Tortrix buoliana [Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775
  • Tortrix bouliana Frolich, 1828
  • bouoliana Herrich-Schaffer, 1847
  • Rhyacionia buolina Neugebauer, 1950
  • Tortrix gemmana Hubner, [1818-1819]
  • Phalaena (Tinea) gemmatella Panzer, 1804
  • Phalaena (Tinea) herbstella Goeze, 1783
  • Rhyacionia buoliana milleri Agenjo, 1963
  • Tortrix pallasana Sodoffsky, 1830
  • Evetria buoliana relictana LeCerf, 1932
  • Rhyacionia buoliana riesgoi Agenjo, 1963
  • Rhyacionia buoliana robredoi Agenjo, 1963
  • Retinia thurificana Lederer, 1855

Rhyacionia buoliana, the pine shoot moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is native to North Africa, North Asia, and Europe, and invasive in North America and South America.

Caterpillar
Mounted male

The wingspan is 16–24 mm. The forewings are ferruginous-orange, often partly suffused with dark red and with several irregular variable anastomosing metallic grey-whitish striae and costal strigulae. The hindwings are light grey. The larva is brown-reddish; head and plate of 2 black.[2]

Adults are on wing from June to August in western Europe.

The larvae feed on pine. The original host plants are Pinus sylvestris and Pinus nigra.

Subspecies

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  • Rhyacionia buoliana
  • Rhyacionia buoliana thurificana (Lederer, 1855)

Parasites

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The larvae are attacked by the tachinid fly Actia nudibasis.[3]

References

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  1. ^ tortricidae.com
  2. ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London
  3. ^ Belshaw, Robert (1993). "Tachinid Flies Diptera Tachinidae". Royal Entomological Society Handbooks. 10 (4ai). Royal Entomological Society of London: 170.
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