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Genus Eucosma

Representative Images

Eucosma gomonana - Eucosma baggetti Tortricid - Eucosma parmatana Eucosma radiatana Moth - Eucosma Tortricidae: Eucosma perangstana - Eucosma perangustana Eucosma raracana Eucosma pallidicostana Eucosma hodgesi - male
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

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 Eucosma

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucosma Hübner, 1823

Identification

2908                         2910                         2911                         2913                         2915

2916                         2918                         2925                         2926                         2927

2928                         2929                         2935                         2936                         2937

2941                         2946                         2947                         2951                         2952

2953                         2956                         2961                         2963                         2964

2968                         2970                         2973                         2976                         2977

2979                         2980                         2981                         2982                         2984

2985                         2992                         2994                         2996                         2998

3002                         3003                         3004.1                         3004.2                       3005                       3005.1

3005.2                       3051                         3098                       3099                         3100

3110                         3125                         3127                         3137                         3144

Remarks

Nearly all North American Phaneta have moved to Eucosma and many in Eucosma have moved to Pelochrista. (1)(2)

Print References

Hübner, J., 1823. Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge : bestehend in Bekundigung einzelner Fliegmuster neuer oder rarer nichteuropäischer Gattungen: Pl.554 f.363-364. (type species E. circulana)
Wright, D.J. 2011. Review of the Eucosma pulveratana (Walsingham) species group, with descriptions of eight new species (Tortricidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 65(2): 101–118 (PDF) (3)
Gilligan et al. 2014. (4)
Wright & Gilligan 2015. (5)

Internet References

Tortricid.net Identification Photos (search by genus) (6)

Works Cited

1.The type species of Eucosma (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)
Todd M. Gilligan, Donald J. Wright. 2013. Zootaxa 3630(3): 489–504.
2.Revised world catalogue of Eucopina, Eucosma, Pelochrista, and Phaneta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)
Todd M. Gilligan, Donald J. Wright. 2013. Zootaxa 3746(2): 301–337.
3.Review of the Eucosma pulveratana (Walsingham) species group, with descriptions of eight new species (Tortricidae).
Donanld J. Wright. 2011. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 65(2): 101–118.
4.Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of Eucosma (Hübner) and related genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)
Todd M. Gilligan, Donald J. Wright, Jacob Munz, Kendra Yakobson, Mark P. Simmons. 2014. Systematic Entomology, 39(1): 49–67.
5.Eucosma Hübner of the contiguous United States and Canada (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)
Donald J. Wright & Todd M. Gilligan. 2015. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Fascicle 9.4.
6.Gilligan, T. M., J. Baixeras, J. W. Brown & K. R. Tuck. 2014. T@RTS: Online, World Catalogue of the Tortricidae.
Contributed by Mike Boone on 9 July, 2005 - 10:36am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Steve Nanz, Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 9 December, 2017 - 12:45pm

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