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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Olethreutini » Apotomis » Apotomis albeolana - Hodges#2763 (Apotomis albeolana)

Species Apotomis albeolana - Hodges#2763

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · 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 Apotomis

Species albeolana (Apotomis albeolana - Hodges#2763)

Hodges Number

2763

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Endopiza albeolana (Zeller, 1875)

Penthina albeolana Zeller, 1875 (1)

Aphania albeolana (2)

Olethreutes albeolana

Argyroploce albeolana

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "white" for this species that is "pure white [rein weiss] with a little foggy-grey [wenig grau nebelig]." (1)

Size

Wingspan 17-19 mm. (2)

Identification

Range

Records from the northeast United States and southeast Canada. (3)

Type locality: Massachusetts, (Burgess, 15 August).

Food

Larvae are leaf rollers of birch (Betula). (2)

Print References

Zeller, P.C., 1875. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, besonders der Microlepidopteren. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 25: 262. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Philipp Christoph Zeller

Works Cited

1.	Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, besonders der Microlepidopteren, vol. 3. Phillip Christoph Zeller. 1875. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 25: 207-360.

2.	Revision of the North American moths of the subfamilies Laspeyresiinae and Olethreutinae Carl Heinrich. 1926. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 132: 1-216.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Cotinis on 30 September, 2007 - 3:34am
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Chuck Entz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 19 March, 2020 - 3:43pm

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