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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Olethreutini » Olethreutes » Olethreutes valdanum - Hodges#2812 (Olethreutes valdanum)

Species Olethreutes valdanum - Hodges#2812

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

2812 – Olethreutes valdanum? - Olethreutes valdanum

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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 Olethreutini

Genus Olethreutes

Species valdanum (Olethreutes valdanum - Hodges#2812)

Hodges Number

2812

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Olethreutes valdanum (McDunnough, 1922)

Exartema valdanum McDunnough,1922 (1)

Size

Wingspan 13-18 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - easily recognized by the narrow, clear white antemedian and postmedian areas bordering the broad median fuscous band. (2)

Range

Records from Manitoba to New Brunswick, south to Tennessee and Missouri. (3)

Holotype male: Ft. Coulonge, Quebec (S.A. Graham, July 7).

Food

Larval hosts include: (4)

white meadowsweet (Spiraea alba)

sweetgale (Myrica gale)

northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)

dogwood (Cornus)

See Also

Olethreutes versicolorana has pale strip along costa from base to AM line.

Print References

McDunnough, J.H., 1922. Undescribed Lepidoptera in the Canadian National Collection. The Canadian Entomologist 54(2): 39. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

James Halliday McDunnough (1877-1962)

Works Cited

1.	Undescribed Lepidoptera in the Canadian National Collection. James H. McDunnough. 1922. The Canadian Entomologist 54(2): 34-47.

2.	Revision of the North American moths of the subfamilies Laspeyresiinae and Olethreutinae Carl Heinrich. 1926. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 132: 1-216.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 7 September, 2008 - 11:34pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 March, 2019 - 9:40am

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