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Host plants include Butternut and Black Walnut (Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants).
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Pecan Leaf Casebearer Moth in Garrett Co., Maryland (6/22/2025). (c) Frode Jacobsen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Pecan Leaf Casebearer Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/18/2020). (c) Timothy Reichard, all rights reserved.
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A Pecan Leaf Casebearer Moth.
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A Pecan Leaf Casebearer Moth.
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Source: Wikipedia
| Acrobasis juglandis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Acrobasis |
| Species: | A. juglandis
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| Binomial name | |
| Acrobasis juglandis (LeBaron, 1872)
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Acrobasis juglandis, the pecan leaf casebearer, is a moth of the family Pyralidae.[1] It is found in Ontario, from Vermont south to Florida and from North Dakota to New Mexico.

Its wingspan is about 18 mm.
The larva feeds on Carya illinoensis, Juglans nigra, Juglans cinerea and Juglans microcarpa.
References
[edit]- ^ "Acrobasis Zeller, 1839" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 16, 2017.