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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Olethreutini » Apotomis » Funereal Apotomis - Hodges#2755 (Apotomis funerea)

Species Apotomis funerea - Funereal Apotomis - Hodges#2755

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

Funereal Apotomis Moth - Apotomis funerea

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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 Olethreutini

Genus Apotomis

Species funerea (Funereal Apotomis - Hodges#2755)

Hodges Number

2755

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Apotomis funerea (Meyrick, 1920)

Argyroploce funerea Meyrick, 1920 (1)

Argyroploce youngana McDunnough, 1922

Heinrich (1926) synonymized funerea with capreana Hübner (2)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet is Latin meaning "funereal, fatal."

Size

Forewing length 8.5-10 mm. (3)

Wingspan 17-21 mm. (1)

Identification

Range

Records across all of Canada and adjacent United States, south to Pennsylvania in the northeast. (4)

Described material: Muskoka, Toronto, Ontario (Parish, July, August).

Food

Larva feeds in rolled leaves of birch (Betula) and hazelnut (Corylus). (3)

Print References

Meyrick, 1920. Exotic microlepidoptera. 2: 350. (1)

McDunnough, 1922. Undescribed Lepidoptera in the Canadian National Collection. The Canadian Entomologist. 54: 41 (Argyroploce youngana)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcoding Life

Edward Meyrick

Works Cited

1.	Exotic Microlepidoptera, volumes 1-5, 1912-1937. (1969 reprint) J. F. Gates Clarke, Edward Meyrick, T. B. Bainbrigge-Fletcher, J. T. Janse. 1969. E. W. Classey Ltd.

2.	Revision of the North American moths of the subfamilies Laspeyresiinae and Olethreutinae Carl Heinrich. 1926. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 132: 1-216.

3.	Guide to the Olethreutine moths of midland North America (Tortricidae). William E. Miller. 1987. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook 660: 1-104.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by tom murray on 29 July, 2008 - 5:37pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Tony-2, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 15 July, 2020 - 2:05pm

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