Moths of North Carolina
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Phiaris glaciana (Möschler, 1860) - No Common Name

Taxonomy
Superfamily: Tortricoidea Family: TortricidaeSubfamily: OlethreutinaeTribe: OlethreutiniP3 Number: 51a0626.2 MONA Number: 2847.00 MONA Synonym: Olethreutes glaciana
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Beadle and Leckie (2012)Online Photographs: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLD                                                                                 
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable only by close inspection of structural features or by DNA analysis.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution:
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Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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Habitats and Life History
Habitats:
Larval Host Plants: The larvae are polyphagous and feed primarily on deciduous hardwoods (Prentice, 1966; Robinson et al., 2010; Beadle and Leckie, 2012. The reported hosts include Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum), Sugar Maple (A. saccharum), birches (Betula), Sweet-fern (Comptonia peregrina), Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera), Lombardy Poplar (P. nigra), Quaking Aspen (P. tremuloides), Choke Cherry (Prunus virginiana), wintergreens (Pyrola), rhododendrons (Rhododendron), willows (Salix) and blueberries (Vaccinium). - View
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Status in North Carolina
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State Protection: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands.
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Recorded by: Ken Kneidel on 2020-06-15
Yancey Co.
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