Oreana unicolorella Hulst, 1887 is a animal in the Pyralidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Oreana unicolorella Hulst, 1887

Oreana unicolorella Hulst, 1887

Oreana unicolorella is the only species in the monotypic snout moth genus Oreana, found across most of North America.

Family
Genus
Oreana
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Oreana unicolorella Hulst, 1887

Oreana is a monotypic genus of snout moths that was described by George Duryea Hulst in 1887. This genus contains only one species, Oreana unicolorella, which was originally described by Hulst one year before the genus was published. This species is found across most of North America, and its larvae feed on the leaves of maple, birch, hawthorn, apple, oak, willow, basswood, and elm trees.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Pyralidae Oreana

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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