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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Epinotia » Epinotia johnsonana - Hodges#3289 (Epinotia johnsonana)

Species Epinotia johnsonana - Hodges#3289

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Epinotia
Species johnsonana (Epinotia johnsonana - Hodges#3289)
Hodges Number
3289
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Epinotia johnsonana (Kearfott, 1907)
Eucosma johnsonana Kearfott, 1907 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence #621202
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet in honor of University of Washington Prof. Orson Bennett “Bug” Johnson (1848-1917) who collected one of the first specimens. Other patronyms include the butterfly Callophrys johnsoni (Skinner, 1904) (298) and a rove beetle Cafius johnsoni (Fall, 1916) (13).
Numbers
More than 80 species in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Kearfott (1907) listed a wingspan of 14-15 mm.
Forewing length 6-8 mm. (2)
Range
California to Colorado and British Columbia. (3), (4), (2)
Lectotype ♀ designated by Heinrich, 1923, collected by Hy. Edwards in Nevada, #14720 in the American Museum of Natural History (5), (6)
Season
Adults fly June to July in California, and the northwestern population from August to September. (2)
Food
Larval host is Holodiscus discolor (oceanspray) (Rosaceae). (2)
Life Cycle
Larvae feed from tightly rolled shelters. (2)
Print References
Heinrich, C. 1923. Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 123: 203. (7)
Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North Americam Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 33(1): 36. (1)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America, plate 16.17; p. 138. (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
presence in California; list of 11 specimen records with dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)
presence in British Columbia; list (U. of British Columbia)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)
William D. Kearfott (WIkipedia)
Works Cited
1.New North American Tortricidae.
William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.
2.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
3.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.World Catalogue of Insects, Vol. 5: Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)
John Wesley Brown, Joaquin Baixeras. 2005. Apollo Books.
6.Type material of North American Microlepidoptera other than Aegeriidae in the American Museum of Natural History
Alexander Barrett Klotts. 1942. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 79: 391-424.
7.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.
8.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 25 May, 2008 - 9:44pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 December, 2017 - 8:52am

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