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Catastega aceriella - Hodges#3334 (Catastega aceriella)
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A.W. Thomas
genitalia -
Catastega aceriella
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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.
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JoAnneRusso
, 6 December, 2021 - 1:27pm
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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,
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A.W. Thomas
, 6 December, 2021 - 3:07pm
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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.
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JoAnneRusso
, 6 December, 2021 - 3:10pm
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