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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Rhopobota » Dietz's Rhopobota - Hodges#3277 (Rhopobota dietziana)

Species Rhopobota dietziana - Dietz's Rhopobota - Hodges#3277

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

Rhopobota dietziana ? - Rhopobota dietziana

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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 Rhopobota

Species dietziana (Dietz's Rhopobota - Hodges#3277)

Hodges Number

3277

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rhopobota dietziana (Kearfott, 1907)

Epinotia dietziana Kearfott, 1907 (1)

Norma dietziana

Enarmonia dietziana

Phylogenetic sequence #621189

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet in honor of German-born physician and amateur entomologist William G. Dietz (1848-1932) of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, who collected some of the first specimens. (1)

Size

Wingspan 10-15 mm. (2), (1), (3)

Identification

Adult - see original description in Print References. (1)

Range

Records from the Eastern half of the United States and adjacent Canada, Oklahoma. (2), (1)

Types: Hampton, NH (S. Albert Shaw, May 28th to July 3rd); Hazleton, PA (W.G. Dietz, May 19th to June 8th).

Food

Heinrich (1923) and Ferguson (1953) reared them on common winterberry (Ilex verticillata). (3), (4)

Eiseman (2014) reared them from leaf mines on inkberry (Ilex glabra). (5) See Bugtracks for the full story as well as suspected hosts American holly (Ilex opaca) and mountain holly (Ilex mucronata).

Life Cycle

Larvae are initially leafminers and eventually abandon their mines and feed in shelters created by crumpling or tying the leaves (Eiseman, 2014).

Print References

Eiseman, C.S. 2014. Notes on the larval habitats and parasitoids of Rhopobota dietziana (Kearfott, 1907) (Tortricidae: Olethreutinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 68(3): 218-220 (PDF)

Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New North American torticidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 92 (1)

Internet References

North American Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	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.

4.	Host records for Lepidoptera reared in Eastern North America D. C. Ferguson. 1975. United States Department of Agriculture 1521: 1-45.

5.	Rhopobota dietziana

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 28 September, 2009 - 11:17pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Randy Hardy, Fyn Kynd, Blocky
Last updated 12 July, 2020 - 11:47pm

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