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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Pseudexentera » Pseudexentera virginiana - Hodges#3258 (Pseudexentera virginiana)

Species Pseudexentera virginiana - Hodges#3258

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

3258 - Pseudexentera virginiana - Pseudexentera virginiana

Hodges#3258 - Pseudexentera virginiana - Pseudexentera virginiana

Tortricid Moth - Pseudexentera virginiana

Pseudexentera virginiana - Hodges#3258 - Pseudexentera virginiana

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Tortricoidea (Tortricid Moths)

Family Tortricidae (Tortricid Moths)

Subfamily Olethreutinae

Tribe Eucosmini

Genus Pseudexentera

Species virginiana (Pseudexentera virginiana - Hodges#3258)

Hodges Number

3258

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pseudexentera virginiana (Clemens, 1864)

Anchylopera virginiana Clemens, 1864 (1)

Exentara virginiana (2)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for the type locality.

Size

Wingspan about 18-19 mm. (2)

Forewing length 7.5-9.5 mm. (3)

Identification

Adult - forewing light brownish-gray with dark speckling and large dark brown to black semicircular patch half-way along costa; basal area slightly darker than remainder of wing; hindwing gray with white fringe.

Range

Connecticut and Michigan, south to Florida and Mississippi.

Type locality: Virginia.

See Also

P. costomaculana forewing has similar dark patch along costa but remainder of wing has pale cream or yellowish shading with little or no speckling.

Print References

Clemens, B., 1864. North American micro-lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 3: 512. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of Maryland

Brackenridge Clemens (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	North American micro-lepidoptera. Brackenridge Clemens. 1864. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 3(3): 505-520.

2.	Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae Carl Heinrich. 1923. United States National Museum Bulletin 123: 1-298.

3.	The Species of Pseudexentera (Tortricidae) William E. Miller. 1986. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 40(3), 218-237.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 12 October, 2007 - 8:41pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 4 December, 2017 - 8:34pm

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