Spruce Groundling

Coleotechnites piceaella

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae

Coleotechnites piceaella (orange spruce needleminer) is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in north-eastern United States and Canada. It is an introduced species in Europe and was first recorded from Great Britain in 1952, then Germany in 1963 and has expanded from there over all of central Europe, towards France, Italy and Hungary.

Distribution

Spruce Groundling — (c) Поляков Александр, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Germany · 2

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Поляков Александр, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionColeotechnites piceaella, Wikipedia contributors

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