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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Atroposia » Primrose Cochylid Moth - Hodges#3848 (Atroposia oenotherana)

Species Atroposia oenotherana - Primrose Cochylid Moth - Hodges#3848

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · 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 Atroposia

Species oenotherana (Primrose Cochylid Moth - Hodges#3848)

Hodges Number

3848

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Atroposia oenotherana (Riley, 1881) (1)

Conchylis oenotherana Riley, 1881

[Atroposia] oenotherana Pogue 1986 (unavailable generic name)

Phtheochroa oenotherana

This species was number 3842 in the 1983 Hodges Checklist.

Explanation of Names

Pogue (1986) proposed the genus Atroposia for this species in his unpublished Ph.D. dissertation and is nomen nudum (unavaillable). The name was formally published by Brown (2019) (1).

Size

wingspan about 11 mm

Range

daltonstate.edu - lists the range as Ontario to Florida to Texas

Food

Evening Primrose

Life Cycle

Larva; spent pupa; adult

Print References

Riley, C. V., 1881. Descriptions of some new Tortricidae (leaf-rollers). Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. 4: 316

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.

Pinned Images at BOLD.

Mass Moths

iNaturalist

Works Cited

1.	New genera, new species, and new combinations in new world Cochylina (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae) Brown, J.W. 2019. Zootaxa, 4671 (2): 195–222.

Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 26 April, 2007 - 7:47am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, marcie oconnor
Last updated 7 January, 2024 - 7:21am

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