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Species Eucosma olivaceana - Olivaceous Eucosma - Hodges#2998

Olivaceous Phaneta Moth - Eucosma olivaceana

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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

Species olivaceana (Olivaceous Eucosma - Hodges#2998)

Hodges Number

2998

Other Common Names

Olivaceous Phaneta Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucosma olivaceana (Riley, 1881) (1)

Grapholitha olivaceana Riley, 1881 (2)

Phaneta olivaceana

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet mean "olivaceous" for the for the coloring of the thorax and wings. (2)

Size

Forewing length 7.5-9.0 mm. (3)

Wingspan 18 mm. (2)

Range

Records from Illinois and Maryland, north to Maine and Quebec. (4)

Type locality: Illinois (J.R. Muhleman).

Habitat

Prairies. (5)

Season

It is not clear from records of adults on Block Island, RI, whether the species is univoltine or bivoltine there; it may have a single highly asynchronous generation with fresh adults found from June to August and a single peak in abundance in July.(6)

Food

Larva folds leaves and bores into stem tips of Goldenrod Solidago (Riley)

Remarks

Riley reported that the larvae are parisitized by the wasp Pimpla annulipes

Print References

Riley, C.V., 1881. Descriptions of some new Tortricidae (leaf-rollers). Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. 4: 320. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Barcoding Life

Tortricid.net - large pinned photo

Tortricid.net - photos of related moths for comaparison

Moths of North Dakota - species page

Moths of Maryland - pinned photo

Tom Murray Photo - large photo of living adult

Lake County, Indiana Endangered, Threatened and Rare Species List

Charles Valentine Riley

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.	Descriptions of some new Tortricidae (Leaf Rollers). Riley, C.V. 1881. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 4: 316-324.

3.	Guide to the Olethreutine moths of midland North America (Tortricidae). William E. Miller. 1987. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook 660: 1-104.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	List of insect species which may be tallgrass prairie specialists. Catherine Reed . 1996. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 35 p.

6.	Block Island Moths

Contributed by tom murray on 9 September, 2007 - 10:26am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy, Fyn Kynd, Blocky
Last updated 17 June, 2022 - 6:38pm

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