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Species Pelochrista fernaldana - Hodges#3015

Representative Images

Pink and white striped moth - Pelochrista fernaldana E. f. - Pelochrista fernaldana - female Pelochrista sp.? - Pelochrista fernaldana Fernald's Eucosma Moth - Pelochrista fernaldana Moth ~14mm to wingtip - Pelochrista fernaldana Moth ~14mm to wingtip - Pelochrista fernaldana Pelochrista fernaldana Pelochrista fernaldana
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

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 (ridingsana group)
Species fernaldana (Pelochrista fernaldana - Hodges#3015)

Hodges Number

3015

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pelochrista fernaldana (Grote, 1880) (1)
Paedisca fernaldana Grote, 1880
Eucosma fernaldana

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for "Prof. C.H. Fernald whose studies in this group have been so successfully inaugurated."

Size

Wingspan 15-25 mm. (2)

Identification

Genitalia:

Range

Records from New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. (2). Also recorded in Manitoba.
Type locality: Colorado.

Food

Larval hosts include paradise apple (Malus pumila), hawthorn (Crataegus) and current (Ribes). (3)

See Also

Eucosma ridingsana which is similar but has orange brown ground color.

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1880. New species of moths. The North American entomologist. 1: 98.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page.
Moth Photographers Group - related species for comparison.
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Augustus Radcliffe Grote

Works Cited

1.Revised world catalogue of Eucopina, Eucosma, Pelochrista, and Phaneta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)
Todd M. Gilligan, Donald J. Wright. 2013. Zootaxa 3746(2): 301–337.
2.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.
3.HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 19 August, 2007 - 7:55pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 14 September, 2023 - 12:41pm

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