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Species Thyraylia voxcana - Hodges#3847.2

Tortricinae, dorsal - Thyraylia voxcana Tortricinae, lateral - Thyraylia voxcana Torticinae on Oxeye False Sunflower, dorsal - Thyraylia voxcana - male Torticinae on Oxeye False Sunflower, lateral - Thyraylia voxcana - male Tortricidae, frass on Oxeye flowers - Thyraylia voxcana Tortricidae, spent pupaX - Thyraylia voxcana Tortricidae, dorsal - Thyraylia voxcana Tortricidae, lateral - Thyraylia voxcana
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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 Thyraylia
Species voxcana (Thyraylia voxcana - Hodges#3847.2)
Hodges Number
3847.2
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Thyraylia voxcana (Kearfott, 1907), rev. status. (1)
Phalonia voxcana Kearfott, 1907
Phalonia omphacitis (Meyrick, 1912) (unnecessary replacement name for voxcana)
* This species was 3858 in the 1983 Hodges Checklist.
Explanation of Names
Thyraylia voxcana (Kearfott, 1907) is restored to full species status in Meltzer & Brown (2014) (1). Generic placement follows Brown (2019) (2) as suggested in Meltzer & Brown (2014).
Specific epithet is part of a series of Kearfott names originating from various alphabetical rhyming schemes with no meaning, often derided by subsequent authors as "nonsense names." See Brown (2001) for a humorous take on this "barbaric" practice. (3), (4)
Range
Type Locality: Hampton, NH.
Print References
Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 33: 83. (5)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (6)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
Works Cited
1.An updated check list of the Cochylina (Tortricidae, Tortricinae, Euliini) of North America north of Mexico including...
Metzler, E.H. & Brown, J.W. 2014. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 68(4): 274–282.
2.New genera, new species, and new combinations in new world Cochylina (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae)
Brown, J.W. 2019. Zootaxa, 4671 (2): 195–222.
3.Presidential address, 2000: Nomenclatural nonsense - flying in the face of a farcical code.
John W. Brown. 2001. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55(1): 1-7.
4.On some impossible specific names in micro-lepidoptera.
Edward Meyrick. 1912. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 48: 32-36.
5.New North American Tortricidae.
William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Steve Nanz on 16 December, 2015 - 3:35am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 3 December, 2020 - 4:04am

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