Nantucket Pine Tip Moth
Rhyacionia frustrana Comstock, 1880
Nantucket Pine Tip Moth: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/5908
Synonyms
Hodges #2882  Retinia frustrana 
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60 Records

Status

Apparently a major pest of pine plantations. It has also been accidentally introduced to West Coast pine plantations via shipments from the East Coast.

Relationships

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

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Rhyacionia frustrana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Rhyacionia
Species:
R. frustrana
Binomial name
Rhyacionia frustrana
(Scudder in Comstock, 1880)
Synonyms
  • Retinia frustrana Scudder in Comstock, 1880
  • Rhyacionia pseudostrobana Amsel, 1962

Rhyacionia frustrana, the Nantucket pine tip moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae.[1] It is found in the United States from Massachusetts south to Florida, west to Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and California. It is also found in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico (Oaxaca), Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

The wingspan is about 11 mm. Adults emerge in early spring, at times as early as February in Florida. There are four to five generations per year in Florida.

Larvae feed on various pine species, including Pinus caribaea, Pinus cubensis, Pinus banksiana, Pinus taeda, Pinus contorta, Pinus radiata, Pinus oocarpa, Pinus rigida, Pinus serotina, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus resinosa, Pinus clausa, Pinus sylvestris, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus glabra, Pinus pungens and Pinus virginiana.

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References

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  1. ^ James D. Young; C. Wayne Berisford; J. V. McHugh (October 2006). "Authorship of the Nantucket Pine Tip Moth, Rhyacionia frustrana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 79 (4): 378–379. doi:10.2317/0602.06.1. ISSN 0022-8567. Wikidata Q120804945.
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