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Species Eucosma landana - Hodges#3114

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 (circulana group)

Species landana (Eucosma landana - Hodges#3114)

Hodges Number

3114

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucosma landana Kearfott, 1907

Eucosma isospora Meyrick, 1912, invalid emendation

Size

~10 mm long.

Identification

Head: Dark, heavily speckled with white-gray scales, including projecting palpi.

Antenna: Brown

Thorax: Dark brown, sprinkled with white scales.

Wings: Dark gray to brownish; heavily speckled entirely with whitish-gray. Somewhat reticulate (net-like), especially along outer edge. Fringe pale gray. Hindwings gray, darker along edges. Fringe gray-white.

Legs: Tan with gray pile. Feet striped with dark brown.

Abdomen: Whitish-gray, mottled with black.

Range

Ontario, Manitoba & Saskatchewan

Holotype (♀): Manitoba. In the American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y.

Lectotypes (2 ♀) in the United States National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. No photos.

Season

Possibly two generations April to June (Manitoba & Sask); Sept in Ontario.

Print References

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008:110. (1)

Heinrich, 1923:120. (2)

Kearfott, 1907:18. (3)

Wright & Gilligan, 2015:26 (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States, An Identification Guide Gilligan, Todd M., Donald J. Wright, and Loran D. Gibson. 2008. Ohio Biological Survey, P.O. Box 21370, Columbus, Ohio 43221-0370.

2.	Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae Carl Heinrich. 1923. United States National Museum Bulletin 123: 1-298.

3.	New North American Tortricidae. William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.

4.	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.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Lee Penner on 1 April, 2020 - 2:02pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 22 May, 2021 - 5:14am

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