List of Lepidoptera that feed on Aster

Aster species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species including:

Monophagous species which feed exclusively on Aster

Bucculatrix leaf miners:

B. cuneigera - feeds on A. shortii
B. errans
B. maritima - feeds on A. tripolium
B. sexnotata

Coleophora case-bearers:

C. astericola
C. asteris
C. bidens - feeds on A. umbellatus
C. dextrella
C. ericoides
C. granifera
C. laurentella
C. longicornella - feeds on A. tripolium
C. simulans
C. sparsipuncta

Schinia septentrionalis

Polyphagous species which feed on Aster among other plants

Bucculatrix angustata
Coleophora case-bearers:

C. acuminatoides - recorded on A. acuminatus
C. annulicola
C. conspicuella
C. corsicella - recorded on A. amellus
C. ditella - recorded on A. sedifolius
C. duplicis
C. linosyridella
C. obscenella - recorded on A. tripolium
C. polemoniella - recorded on A. ericoides

Flame shoulder (Ochropleura plecta)
Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)
Schinia species

Wormwood pug (Eupithecia absinthiata)

External links

Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Hostplant Genus: Aster". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.

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