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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Grapholitini » Cydia » Hickory Shuckworm Moth - Hodges#3471 (Cydia caryana)

Species Cydia caryana - Hickory Shuckworm Moth - Hodges#3471

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

Cydia caryana - Hickory Shuckworm Moth - Hodges#3471 - Cydia caryana

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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 Cydia

Species caryana (Hickory Shuckworm Moth - Hodges#3471)

Hodges Number

3471

Other Common Names

Hickory Shuck Worm

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cydia caryana (Fitch, 1856)

Ephippiphora caryana Fitch, 1856

Grapholita caryana (Fitch, 1856)

Enarmonia caryana (Fitch, 1856)

Laspeyresia caryana (Fitch, 1856)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for the host plant genus (Carya).

Size

Wingspan: 10-12mm (1)

Identification

Range

Eastern North America (1)

Also, se. New Mexico - Purdue survey

Food

The primary hosts are pecan and hickory and the larvae feed mostly in the nut shucks, especially after shell hardening. The first generation larvae commonly feed and develop in phylloxera galls.

Print References

Fitch, A., 1856. Third report on the noxious and other insects of the state of New York. Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society 16: 459.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Tortricid.net

Oklahoma State University

Purdue

Asa Fitch (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

Contributed by Bob Patterson on 4 May, 2007 - 5:31am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Tony-2, Mike Quinn, Randy Hardy, PaleoJon
Last updated 29 March, 2021 - 9:43pm

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