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Species Epinotia nonana - Hodges#3335

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grey love - Epinotia nonana greyish moth - Epinotia nonana Epinotia nonana Epinotia nonana Moth E - Epinotia nonana Epinotia nonana Tortricidae: Epinotia nonana - Epinotia nonana blending in - Epinotia nonana
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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 Epinotia
Species nonana (Epinotia nonana - Hodges#3335)

Hodges Number

3335

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Epinotia nonana (Kearfott, 1907)
Eucosma nonana Kearfott, 1907
Eucosma carphologa Meyrick, 1912 (1)
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. (2), (1)

Size

Wingspan about 19-24 mm. (3), (4)

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: 1, 2)

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): 30 (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group
William D. Kearfott

Works Cited

1.On some impossible specific names in micro-lepidoptera.
Edward Meyrick. 1912. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 48: 32-36.
2.Presidential address, 2000: Nomenclatural nonsense - flying in the face of a farcical code.
John W. Brown. 2001. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55(1): 1-7.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.New North American Tortricidae.
William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 25 May, 2008 - 4:06pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 18 October, 2023 - 1:55pm

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