Species Hedya separatana - Pink-washed Leafroller - Hodges#2860

2860

Metendothenia separatana (Kearfott, 1907)

Olethreutes separatana Kearfott, 1907 (1)

Hedya separatana

Phylogenetic sequence #620634

Specific epithet means "separate." Kearfott notes that it "has been wrongly identified as O. dimidiana Sodoff. in almost all collections." (1)

WS ≈ 12-15mm (1)

TL ≈ 8mm (2)

Head and palpi black, antenna fuscous, legs grayish-white, banded. Forewing: outer two-fifths pale lilaceous-white, with four pale fuscous costal streaks and a shade of the same color before termen. A small black dot in middle of wing, at end of cell, and a gray shade at anal angle. The inner three-fifths of wing is mottled black and gray, with a lilaceous patch from base to inner fourth on upper half of wing which connects by a few pale scales with a geminate quadrate spot between dorsum and fold before middle of wing. Cilia pinkish-fuscous, paler at angle. (1)

SE Canada and East US. (2)

Type locality: USA, Ohio, Cincinnati (Miss Braun, June 17th). (1)

Described specimens: Essex County, NJ (Kearfott, June 14th to 15th); New Brighton, PA (F.A. Merrick, June 2nd and Aug. 12th); Washington County, AR (A.J. Brown, Aug.).

Black cherry, blackberry, and rose. (2)

Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 13. (1)

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