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Dioryctria pygmaeella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Genus:	Dioryctria
Species:	D. pygmaeella
Binomial name
Dioryctria pygmaeella Ragonot, 1887

Dioryctria pygmaeella, the baldcypress coneworm moth, is a species of snout moth. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1887 and is restricted to the coastal plains of the eastern United States and eastern Texas.

There are up to three generations per year.

The larvae feed within the cones of Taxodium distichum and Taxodium ascendens.

References

1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
2. Whitehouse, C.M.; Roe, A.D.; Strong, W.B.; Evenden, M.L.; Sperling, F.A.H. (2011). "Biology and management of North American cone-feeding Dioryctria species". The Canadian Entomologist. 143 (1): 1–34. doi:10.4039/n10-045.
3. "The Dioryctria (Pyralidae) species of Louisiana" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-16.

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