Eucopina monitorana

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Eucopina monitorana larva (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Steven Katovich, USDA Forest Service
Source: Wikimedia Commons
cone of Pinus resinosa cut open to show damage by Eucopina monitorana larvae (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Steven Katovich, USDA Forest Service
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Eucopina monitorana (Heinrich, 1920) - (red pine cone borer)

This moth is found in North America, where it breeds in the developing cones of red pine, Pinus resinosa.

Synonyms
Eucosma monitorana

Vernacular names
• English: red pine cone borer
• Français: perce-cône du pin rouge




Publications covering Eucopina monitorana

Systematic Entomology (2014) 39, 49-67
Todd M. Gilligan, Donald J. Wright, Jacob Munz, Kendra Yakobson and Mark P. Simmons (2014)
Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of Eucosma Hübner and related genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)

The Canadian Entomologist (2002) 134, 391-401
G.G. Grant, P. de Groot, D. Langevin, S.A. Katovich, K.N. Slessor and W.E. Miller (2002)
Sex attractants and seasonal flight patterns for three Eucosma (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) species sympatric in eastern pine seed orchards and plantations