Twig borer
Twig borer refers to a number of species of
agricultural pests
. Animals that are called twig borers include:
Beetles
Family Bostrichidae
- Amphicerus bicaudatus (apple twig borer or grape cane borer)
- Amphicerus bimaculatus (grape cane borer beetle)
- Melalgus confertus (branch and twig borer)
Family Curculionidae
- Xylosandrus compactus (black twig borer or coffee twig borer)
Family Cerambycidae
- Chlorophorus varius (grape wood borer)
- Bacchisa fortunei (blue pear twig borer)
- Oberea tripunctata (dogwood twig borer)
- Oberea delongi (poplar twig borer)
- Xylotrechus pyrrhoderus (grape twig borer)
Moths
Family Gelechiidae
- Coleotechnites bacchariella (coyote brush twig borer moth)
- Anarsia lineatella (peach twig borer)
Family Crambidae
- Terastia meticulosalis (erythrina twigborer)
Family Tortricidae
- Gypsonoma haimbachiana (cottonwood twig borer)
- Hystrichophora taleana (indigobush twig borer)
- Ecdytolopha insiticiana (locust twig borer)
Genus Proteoteras
- Proteoteras willingana (eastern boxelder twig borer moth)
- Proteoteras aesculana (maple twig borer)
- Proteoteras crescentana (northern boxelder twig borer moth)
- Proteoteras arizonae (western boxelder twig borer moth)