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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Pelochrista » luridana group (Pelochrista luridana group) » Pelochrista snyderana - Hodges#3087 (Pelochrista snyderana)

Species Pelochrista snyderana - Hodges#3087

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

Eucosma snyderana - Pelochrista snyderana

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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 Pelochrista

No Taxon (luridana group)

Species snyderana (Pelochrista snyderana - Hodges#3087)

Hodges Number

3087

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pelochrista snyderana (Kearfott, 1907) (1)

Eucosma snyderana Kearfott, 1907 (2)

Phylogentic sequence #621036

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet in honor of Arthur John Snyder of Illinois, founder of The Chicago Entomological Society and author of The Argynnids of North America (1900), who provided the type specimen.

Size

Wingspan about 28 mm. (2)

Forewing length 12-16.5 mm. (1)

Identification

Adult - see original description in Print Preferences (2) and footnoted re-description by Wright (2007). (1)

Range

Records from central California to Washington, east to Wyoming and Utah. (3), (2), (4), (1)

Type locality: Blackfoot, Idaho.

See Also

Pelochrista invicta (Walsingham, 1895) (1)

Pelochrista subinvicta (Kearfott, 1907)

Print References

Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North America Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 89. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

William D. Kearfott (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	Notes on Nearctic Eucosma (Hubner): a new species, a resurrected species, and three synonymies (Tortricidae) Donald J. Wright. 2007. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 61(1): 38–49.

2.	New North American Tortricidae. William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	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.

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Jim Johnson on 4 February, 2015 - 11:51am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 3 December, 2017 - 6:37pm

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