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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

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Small Moth - Pelochrista matutina Hodges #3091 – Eucosma matutina ? - Pelochrista matutina Moth 060314b ID - Pelochrista matutina Hodges#3091 - Pelochrista matutina #3091 - Pelochrista matutina? - Pelochrista matutina Hodges#3091 - Pelochrista matutina Pelochrista matutina 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.
Genitalia:
♂
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, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 24 February, 2024 - 2:17pm

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