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Species Sereda tautana - Speckled Sereda - Hodges#3425

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Tortricoidea
Family Tortricidae (Tortricid Moths)
Subfamily Olethreutinae
Tribe Grapholitini
Genus Sereda
Species tautana (Speckled Sereda - Hodges#3425)
Hodges Number
3425
Size
wingspan 11 mm
Range
New Hampshire to Florida, west to Texas
Remarks
Page creation based on Richard Brown's identification of this image. Dr. Brown is a tortricid moth specialist at U. of Mississippi.
Internet References
distribution info (Dalton State College, Georgia)
pinned adult image (Todd Gilligan, tortricidae.com)