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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Grapholitini » Satronia » Southern Pine Catkinworm Moth - Hodges#3415 (Satronia tantilla)

Species Satronia tantilla - Southern Pine Catkinworm Moth - Hodges#3415

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

Southern Pine Catkinworm Moth - Satronia tantilla

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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 Grapholitini

Genus Satronia

Species tantilla (Southern Pine Catkinworm Moth - Hodges#3415 )

Hodges Number

3415

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Satronia tantilla Heinrich, 1926 (1)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin tantillus meaning "so little, so small."

Numbers

The only species in the genus found in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan 9.5 mm. (1)

Identification

Adult: Palps, face and head dirty white ● FW grayish fuscous ground ● Pair of moderately broad, outwardly curved, leaden metallic bands with faint dusting of white between, from costa before middle to mid-dorsum ● Four short, faint white dashes, on outer half of costa ● Ocelloid patch a single, rather wide vertical metallic bar, outwardly margined by 5 or 6 short, faint, black dashes on fuscous ground ● Terminal edge black, with leaden fuscous cilia ● HW pale smoky fuscous; cilia dirty white with dark basal band. (1)

Holotype specimen (2)

Range

Texas and Arkansas to Florida(3) and Maryland. (4), (5), (1)

Holotype from Archer, Alachua Co., Florida. (1), (6)

Moth Photographers Group map

Bug Guide map

Season

Several flights with most records from January, March to June, September, December. (4), (7)

Food

Pine species, including Pinus elliottii (slash pine) and Pinus palustris (longleaf pine) (7)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (4)

Cydia marita Brown, 2014 - See Info page

Print References

Brown, R.L., J.F.G. Clarke, & H.B. Habeck, 1983. New host records for Olethreutinae (Tortricidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 37(3), p. 226. (8)

Heinrich, C., 1926. Revision of the North American moths of the subfamilies Laspeyresiinae and Olethreutinae. United States National Museum Bulletin, Bulletin 132: 17. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Tortricidae.com

Smithsonian collection (2)

Carl Heinrich

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Catalogue of the type specimens of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the National Museum of ... John W. Brown, Jon Lewis. 2000. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 102: 1014-1069 .

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	South Carolina Moth Species

6.	World Catalogue of Insects, Vol. 5: Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) John Wesley Brown, Joaquin Baixeras. 2005. Apollo Books.

7.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

8.	New host records for Olethreutinae (Tortricidae) Richard L. Brown, J. F. Gates Clarke, Dale H. Habeck. 1983. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 37(3): 224-227.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 March, 2012 - 7:01pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Blocky
Last updated 12 March, 2019 - 5:15am

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