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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Catastega » Catastega aceriella - Hodges#3334 (Catastega aceriella)
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genitalia - Catastega aceriella - female
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genitalia - Catastega aceriella - Female
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 22, 2016
moth genitalia
moth collected by Tom Murray

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Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 1 January, 2020 - 2:05pm
Last updated 18 October, 2023 - 3:34pm

Tony, According to Brown, "th
Tony, According to Brown, "the female C. aceriella has sternum VII without rugae", whereas C. timidella is shown as having rugae or ridges. I'm wondering if this is C. timidella.
Here's the paper, Brown, R.L., 1986. Resurrection of Catastega (Clemens) and revision of the Epinotia vertumnana (Zeller) species-group (Tortricidae: Olethreutinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 40(4): 327-346.
… JoAnneRusso, 6 December, 2021 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Hi JoAnne
I based my ID on Fig. 260 in Gilligan et al. 2008
Also Tom's moth looks more like Gilligan's 260 than 259 (timidella)
Also Tom's moth looks more like Fig 2 (aceriella) in Brown's paper,
… A.W. Thomas, 6 December, 2021 - 3:07pm login or register to post comments

 
I found it confusing in Gilli
I found it confusing in Gilligan, that the 7th plate of C. aceriella looks like it has ridges and the one for C. timidella looked smooth! I wondered if it was incorrectly numbered. But I do agree that the moth looks more like. C. aceriella than C. timidella.
… JoAnneRusso, 6 December, 2021 - 3:10pm login or register to post comments

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