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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Acroplectis » Acroplectis haemanthes - Hodges#3590 (Acroplectis haemanthes)

Species Acroplectis haemanthes - Hodges#3590

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · 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 Tortricinae

Tribe Cochylini

Genus Acroplectis

Species haemanthes (Acroplectis haemanthes - Hodges#3590)

Hodges Number

3590

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acroplectis haemanthes Meyrick, 1927 (1)

Numbers

Acroplectis haemanthes is the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Forewing length 6.5-8 mm. (3)

Identification

Range

Western Texas to southeastern California. (4), (4)

Lectotype collected in Alpine, Brewster County, Texas. (5)

Season

Powell & Opler (2009) reported adults in April and July. (3)

Moth Photographers Group has April to July, and October. (6)

Food

Powell & Opler (2009) reported the larval host plant and early stages are unknown. (3)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Meyrick, 1927. Exotic Microlepidoptera, Taylor & Francis. 3: 370. (1)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 148; plate 18, fig. 12. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (6)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	Exotic Microlepidoptera, volumes 1-5, 1912-1937. (1969 reprint) J. F. Gates Clarke, Edward Meyrick, T. B. Bainbrigge-Fletcher, J. T. Janse. 1969. E. W. Classey Ltd.

2.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

3.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

4.	Assessment of insects, especially moths (Lepidoptera), of the White Sands National Monument Eric H. Metzler. 2011. Western National Parks Association.

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

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 June, 2013 - 9:00pm
Last updated 25 January, 2014 - 10:29pm

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