Stegasta bosqueella Chambers, 1875 is a animal in the Gelechiidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Stegasta bosqueella Chambers, 1875

Stegasta bosqueella Chambers, 1875

Stegasta bosqueella, the red-necked peanutworm moth, is a gelechiid moth found in North America whose larvae are peanut pests.

Family
Genus
Stegasta
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Stegasta bosqueella Chambers, 1875

Stegasta bosqueella, commonly known as the red-necked peanutworm moth, is a moth species belonging to the family Gelechiidae. This species is distributed across North America, with confirmed records from the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Its larvae are recognized as a pest of Arachis hypogaea, and they feed on the foliage of this host plant.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Gelechiidae Stegasta

More from Gelechiidae

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

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