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Species Larisa subsolana - Larisa's Tortrix - Hodges#3423

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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 Larisa
Species subsolana (Larisa's Tortrix - Hodges#3423)
Hodges Number
3423
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Larisa subsolana Miller, 1978 (1)
Size
Length of FW: 3.8–5.8 mm (male), 4.1–6.3 mm (female) (1)
Identification
FW length is approximately 2.8 X width; ground color of upper side brown; basal patch sharply delineated; middle cross-band grayish brown, grading apically to darker brown, a thin brown line centrally from costa to dorsum; distal third grayish brown, tinged in costal half with rust; fringe brown. Front and middle legs brown on outer side with tarsi white-banded. Hind legs are white. (1)


Range
Texas to Florida, north to Michigan, Ontario and Massachusetts. (1)
Holotype male: Arkansas, Devil's Den State Park, Washington Co., June 26, 1966 (R.W. Hodges), No. 72093 in National Museum of Natural History.
Food
Larvae have been observed on pecan (Carya illinoensis). (2)
See Also
Most similar in markings to some species of Corticivora and Cydia
Print References
Miller, W.E., 1978. Larisa subsolana, a new genus and species of moth from eastern North America (Olethreutidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 32(4): 256. (1)
Works Cited
1.Larisa Subsolana, A New Genus and Species of Moth from Eastern North America (Olethreutidae)
William E. Miller. 1978. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 32(4), 1978, 256-260.
2.New host records for Olethreutinae (Tortricidae)
Richard L. Brown, J. F. Gates Clarke, Dale H. Habeck. 1983. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 37(3): 224-227.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems