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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Olethreutini » Hedya » Hedya salicella - Hodges#2864.1 (Hedya salicella)

Species Hedya salicella - Hodges#2864.1

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

Species salicella (Hedya salicella - Hodges#2864.1)

Hodges Number

2864.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hedya salicella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Phalaena salicella Linnaeus, 1758 (1)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin salix for the host plant (willow).

Size

Wingspan: 19 to 24 mm (2).

Identification

See species page at UKMoths(2) in internet references below.

Range

Native to Europe. North American records from Ontario (1956), Massachusetts (1975), Newfoundland (1985) and Missouri (1985) (3).

Season

North American records from June to August, possibly bivoltine (3).

Food

Larvae feed in spun shoots and folded leaves of Salix and Populus species (3).

Life Cycle

"Details of wintering in Eurasia are unclear, but adult flight dates also suggest that the egg or partly grown larva is the wintering stage" (3).

Print References

Hübner, J. 1825. Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge 7: Pl.3, f.11.

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae (Edn. 10), 1: 536 (1).

Sabourin, M., Miller, W.E. & Dang, P.T., 2002. Hedya salicella (L.), a Palaearctic species, collected in North America (Tortricidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 56: 172–173 (3).

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

UKMoths (2)

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Works Cited

1.	Systema Naturae, 10th ed. Carolus Linnaeus (Carl Linné). 1758.

2.	UKMoths

3.	Hedya salicella (L.), a Palaearctic species, collected in North America (Tortricidae) Michael Sabourin, William E. Miller, P.T. Dang. 2002. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 56: 172–173.

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 1 December, 2017 - 10:04pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 1 January, 2018 - 10:25am

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