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Unusual Occurrence of the Virginia Pitch-Nodule Moth, Petrova wenzeli (Kearfott), in Canada (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

William E. Miller
William E. Miller
Affiliation:
Lake States Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Recent study of three Ontario Petrova specimens in the Canadian National Collection, tentatively identified as P. albicapitana (Busck), showed them to be the Virginia pitch-nodule moth, P. wenzeli (Kearfott). This insect was previously unknown outside the range of its Virginia pine host, Pinus virginiana Mill. (Miller and Altmann, 1958). Following this discovery, the Canadian Forest Insect Survey assembled nearly 300 specimens labeled as Petrova albicapitana for restudy, and among these 2 more P. wenzeli specimens were identified by the writer. With the writer's differentiation guide given below, Forest Insect Survey personnel distinguished two more P. wenzeli moths from a large group of P. albicapitana specimens reared subsequently.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 92 , Issue 11 , November 1960 , pp. 879
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1960

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