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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 » reversana group (Pelochrista reversana group) » Pelochrista reversana - Hodges#3157 (Pelochrista reversana)

Species Pelochrista reversana - Hodges#3157

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

Crambid? Pyralid? - Pelochrista reversana

#3157 - Pelochrista reversana? - Pelochrista reversana

Pelochrista reversana - Hodges#3157 - Pelochrista reversana - male

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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 (reversana group)

Species reversana (Pelochrista reversana - Hodges#3157)

Hodges Number

3157

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pelochrista reversana (Kearfott,1907) (1)

Eucosma reversana Kearfott, 1907 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence #621017

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet means "reversed" for the moth that "much resembles E. atomosana Fern., but can readily be separated, as the direction of the stripes are reversed." (2)

Size

Forewing length 7.7-10.9 mm. (1)

Wingspan 17-20 mm. (2), (3)

Identification

Adult - see Wright (2008). (1)

Range

Arizona to Texas, Colorado, Kansas. (1)

Types: San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas (Dr. Wm. Barnes).

Print References

Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 22. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD Systems

William D. Kearfott

Works Cited

1.	Nearctic Eucosmini (Tortricidae) associated with Pelochrista occipitana (Zeller) and Eucosma biquadrana ... Donald J. Wright. 2008. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 62(4): 216–231.

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

3.	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.

Contributed by A. Hendrickson on 11 March, 2016 - 5:39pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 20 December, 2017 - 2:27pm

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