American Chestnut Moth

American Chestnut Moth

Taxobox
name = American Chestnut Moth


status = EX | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Nepticulidae
genus = "Ectodemia"
species = "E. castaneae"
binomial = "Ectodemia castaneae"
binomial_authority =
synonyms =
The American Chestnut Moth ("Ectodemia castaneae") was a species of moth in the Nepticulidae family. It was endemic to the United States.

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* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/7028/all Ectodemia castaneae] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 31 July 2007.


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