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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Olethreutini » Endothenia » Verbena Bud Moth - Hodges#2738 (Endothenia hebesana)

Species Endothenia hebesana - Verbena Bud Moth - Hodges#2738

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · 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 Olethreutini

Genus Endothenia

Species hebesana (Verbena Bud Moth - Hodges#2738)

Hodges Number

2738

Other Common Names

Dull-barred Endothenia Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Endothenia hebesana (Walker, 1863)

Sciaphila hebesana Walker, 1863 (1)

Olethreutes daeckiana (Kearfott, 1907)

Size

FWL = 5.0-8.2 mm. (2)

Identification

Food

Feeds on developing seeds of host plant. May use many different plants as hosts including Antirrhinum, Gentiana, Gerardia, Iris, Orthocarpus, Penstemon, Physostegia, Solidago, Stachys, Teucrium, Tigridia, Verbascum, Verbeena, Veronica, Sarracenia, Scrophularia, Scutellaria. (U of Alberta) Also Castilleja sessiliflora. (MJ Hatfield)

Life Cycle

larva, larva inside pod of Castilleja sessiliflora, pupa in Teucrium canadense, adult, adult

Print References

Walker, F. 1863. Tortricites & Tineites. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 28: 342. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

BOLD Systems (4)

E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum (2)

Francis Walker (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXVIII – Tortricites and Tineites Francis Walker. 1863. British Museum (Natural History), p.287-561.

2.	University of Alberta Entomology Collection

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 29 July, 2007 - 9:49pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Robert Lord Zimlich, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 18 March, 2020 - 3:26pm

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