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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Gypsonoma » Gypsonoma salicicolana - Hodges#3228 (Gypsonoma salicicolana)

Species Gypsonoma salicicolana - Hodges#3228

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Gypsonoma salicicolana - Hodges#3228 - Gypsonoma salicicolana

Little Gypsonoma Thing - Gypsonoma salicicolana

Gypsonoma salicicolana - Gypsonoma salicicolana

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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 Gypsonoma

Species salicicolana (Gypsonoma salicicolana - Hodges#3228)

Hodges Number

3228

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gypsonoma salicicolana (Clemens, 1864)

Hedya salicicolana Clemens, 1864 (1)

Epinotia salicicolana

Enarmonia salicicolana

Phylogenetic sequence #621129

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "dwells in the willow rose gall (salicis)." B.D. Walsh included a note with the specimens that "it mines a gall like a rose on a dwarf upland willow, Salix humilis, which I call salicis rhodiodes." (1)

Size

Forewing length 4.3-6.2 mm.(2)

Identification

Adults are polymorphic in color.(2)

Adult: forewing dark grayish-brown from base to AM line and in broad PM band crossing wing; median band and subterminal band paler yellowish-brown; AM line varies from a gently curved arc to a rounded V-shaped lobe that protrudes into median area; short blackish diagonal streaks along costa; small dark patch at apex; hindwing grayish-brown, unmarked

Genitalia:

Range

Quebec to Florida(3), west through Texas(4) to California(5), north to Alberta(6). (7), (8)

Season

The adults fly from May to July in California; June to September in Kentucky

Food

The larvae feed on leaves of willow (Salix spp.); reported on Heartleaf Willow (S. cordata), Prairie Willow (S. humilis), and Sandbar Willow (S. interior [=longifolia]), and presumably feeds on other species of willow in the southwestern US where the above 3 species do not occur

See Also

Gypsonoma substitutionis forewing has whitish median band; Gypsonoma fasciolana forewing has whitish median band and whitish subterminal band, whereas in G. salicicolana, neither of those bands are whitish (compare images of all 3 species plus related species at MPG)

Print References

Clemens, B. 1864. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 514. (1)

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States. p. 133.206. (9)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. plate 15, fig. 49; p. 136. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (7)

pinned adult image and larval foodplant (Todd Gilligan, tortricidae.com)

California Moth Specimens Database

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (10)

Brackenridge Clemens (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	North American micro-lepidoptera. Brackenridge Clemens. 1864. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 3(3): 505-520.

2.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

5.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

6.	An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada Gregory R. Pohl, Gary G. Anweiler, B. Christian Schmidt, Norbert G. Kondla. 2010. ZooKeys 38: 1–549.

7.	North American Moth Photographers Group

8.	Kentucky Butterfly Net Database (moths also)

9.	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.

10.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 June, 2008 - 9:18am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chuck Sexton, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 9 August, 2024 - 2:26pm

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