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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Pelochrista » matutina group (Pelochrista matutina group) » Pelochrista matutina - Hodges#3091 (Pelochrista matutina)

Species Pelochrista matutina - Hodges#3091

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

Tortricidae: Eucoma matutina - Pelochrista matutina

#3091 - Pelochrista matutina? - Pelochrista matutina

Small Moth ID Request - Pelochrista matutina

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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 Pelochrista

No Taxon (matutina group)

Species matutina (Pelochrista matutina - Hodges#3091)

Hodges Number

3091

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pelochrista matutina (Grote, 1873) (1)

Penthina matutina Grote, 1873

Eucosma matutina

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin matutinus meaning "morning."

Size

Wingspan 12-14 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - Head and FW whitish with, scattered dark scales. Basal patch incomplete, with scattered dark costal scales. Middle brownish band continued with distinct edges marked by blackish scales. The succeeding whitish underspace is contracted medially by the more diffuse apical clouding which extends beyond the curved line. Beneath fuscous, with whitish costal edge and more distinct regularly divaricate dark streaks.

Range

Records throughout the United States minus the Pacific states. (3)

Type: Texas (Belfrage).

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1873. Contributions to a knowledge of North American moths. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 1:92

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD Systems

Augustus Radcliffe Grote

Works Cited

1.	Revised world catalogue of Eucopina, Eucosma, Pelochrista, and Phaneta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini) Todd M. Gilligan, Donald J. Wright. 2013. Zootaxa 3746(2): 301–337.

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by tom murray on 17 August, 2008 - 9:19am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 19 December, 2017 - 6:35pm

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