Eastern Cactus-boring Moth

Melitara prodenialis

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae

Melitara prodenialis is a moth of the family Pyralidae described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is native to North America, where it is known from south-eastern New York to Florida along the Atlantic coastal plain, and west to eastern Oklahoma and north-central and south-eastern Texas. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.

Distribution

Eastern Cactus-boring Moth — (c) Laura Gaudette, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Laura Gaudette · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 6

Sources and credits

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Eastern Cactus-boring Moth

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