Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Epinotia nonana (Kearfott, 1907)
Eucosma nonana Kearfott, 1907
Eucosma carphologa Meyrick, 1912
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Phylogentic sequence #621243
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet is part of a series of Kearfott names originating from various alphabetical rhyming schemes with no meaning, often derided by subsequent authors as "nonsense names." See Brown (2001) for a humorous take on this "barbarous" practice.
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(1)Identification
Adult - forewing variably pale to medium gray with dark gray to blackish markings; short dark streaks of varying width along length of costa; dark irregular blotch near inner margin in AM area, and smaller blotches in subapical and median areas; no dark blotch at anal angle (as in Catastega aceriella; see below); hindwing grayish-brown.
Genitalia:
♀

♂

Range
Northeastern United States plus Quebec, Ontario, and a disjunct population in California.
Type locality: Pueblo, CO (H.W.
Nash).
Season
Adults fly from July to September in the northeast; June and July in California.
See Also
Maple Trumpet Skeletonizer (
Catastega (=Epinotia) aceriella) forewing is very similar but has dark blotch near anal angle, not in subapical area (see photos of
aceriella by Richard Brown in PDF doc below, by Jim Vargo in MPG link below, and by Todd Gilligan here:
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Print References
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 (
PDF)
Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New North America Tortricidae.
Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1):
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