Records for the Utilization of Prunus as a Larval Foodplant by 71 Species of Lepidoptera in Northeast California

Authors

Laurence L. Crabtree, Austin, Nevada, United States
Ron Leuschner, Manhattan Beach, California, United States

Date of this Version

12-31-2000

Document Type

Article

Citation

Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey (December 31, 2000) 2(7): 1-7

Also available at https://lepsurvey.carolinanature.com/ttr/ttr-2-7.pdf

Comments

Copyright 2000, International Lepidoptera Survey. Open access material

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-SA-NC 4.0 International)

Abstract

Twenty-six sites in five northeastern California counties (Shasta, Modoc, Plumas, Lassen, Tehama) were surveyed from 1991 to 1999 for the presence of lepidopteran larvae on naturally occurring shrubs of the genus Prunus. To date, a total of seventy-one species of Lepidoptera from seventeen families have been documented to utilize one or more of the area’s three Prunus species (P. emarginata, P. subcordata, and P. virginiana var. demissa).