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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Phtheochroa » Phtheochroa aegrana - Hodges#3810 (Phtheochroa aegrana)

Species Phtheochroa aegrana - Hodges#3810

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

Phtheochroa aegrana - Hodges #3810 - Phtheochroa aegrana

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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 Phtheochroa

Species aegrana (Phtheochroa aegrana - Hodges#3810)

Hodges Number

3810

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phtheochroa aegrana (Walsingham, 1879)

Idiographis aegrana Walsingham, 1879 (1)

Hysterosia aegrana

Number 3793 in the 1983 Hodges Checklist. (2)

Size

Wingspan 20 mm. (1)

Range

Records from the western United States and Canada. (3)

Type locality: Rogue River, Jackson County, Oregon. (4)

Season

Tha main flight period appears to be May to August. (3)

Food

Known larval hosts include seaside woolly sunflower (Eriophyllum stoechadifolium). (5)

Print References

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States: p. 180.295.

Walsingham, Lord. 1879. North-American Torticidae. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum 4: 26; Pl.66, f.4. (1)

Internet References

University of California, Berkeley

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Lord Walsingham (1843-1919)

Works Cited

1.	North-American Torticidae Thomas, Lord Walsingham. 1879. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. 4.

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Gilligan, T. M., J. Baixeras, J. W. Brown & K. R. Tuck. 2014. T@RTS: Online, World Catalogue of the Tortricidae.

5.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 July, 2013 - 11:43am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 4 February, 2018 - 9:44pm

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