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Species Eucosma clementeana - Hodges#2969.6

Moth for ID  - Eucosma clementeana     - Eucosma clementeana
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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
No Taxon (stramineana group)
Species clementeana (Eucosma clementeana - Hodges#2969.6)
Hodges Number
2969.6
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eucosma clementeana (Wright, 2010)
Phaneta clementeana Wright, 2010
Phaneta stramineana (in part, not Walsingham 1879) Powell & Opler, 2009
Range
Southwestern California.
Season
Two or three generations per year. (1)
Food
Isocoma menziesii on San Clemente Island, CA. (1)
Remarks
The specimen illustrated as stramineana in Powell & Opler (2009)(2), fig.15.6, Specimen No. EMEC71297 at Calphotos, is apparently the holotype of clementeana.
See Also
Eucosma grindeliana from southern California, treated as a complex by some authors, is less heavily marked.
Print References
Wright, 2010:135. (1)
Wright & Gilligan, 2015:79. (3)
Works Cited
1.Nine new species of Phaneta (Stephens) Tortricidae from western North America, with review of ten related species
Donald J. Wright. 2010. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 64 (3): 117-138.
2.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
3.Eucosma Hübner of the contiguous United States and Canada (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)
Donald J. Wright & Todd M. Gilligan. 2015. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Fascicle 9.4.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems