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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Eucosma » lapidana group (Eucosma lapidana group) » Eucosma kokana - Hodges#2950 (Eucosma kokana)

Species Eucosma kokana - Hodges#2950

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · 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 Olethreutinae

Tribe Eucosmini

Genus Eucosma

No Taxon (lapidana group)

Species kokana (Eucosma kokana - Hodges#2950)

Hodges Number

2950

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucosma kokana Kearfott, 1907 (1)

Eucosma chortaea Meyrick, 1912 (2)

Phylogentic sequence #620789

Explanation of Names

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 "barbarous" practice. (3), (2)

Size

Wingspan 20-21 mm. (1)

Range

Records from Wisconsin and Illinois, east to Pennsylvania and West Virginia. (4)

Paratypes: Cincinnati, OH (A.F. Braun, 3 Oct.). Scranton, PA (A.E. Lister, 8 Jul.).

Season

Adults fly in the fall. Most records in October. (4)

Print References

Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 29. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

William D. Kearfott

Works Cited

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

2.	On some impossible specific names in micro-lepidoptera. Edward Meyrick. 1912. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 48: 32-36.

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 1 November, 2016 - 9:21am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 10 December, 2017 - 11:39am

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