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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Anopina » Anopina triangulana - Hodges#3583 (Anopina triangulana)

Species Anopina triangulana - Hodges#3583

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

Moth, Anopina triangulana? - Anopina triangulana

Anopina triangulana ? - Anopina triangulana

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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 Tortricinae

Tribe Cochylini

Genus Anopina

Species triangulana (Anopina triangulana - Hodges#3583)

Hodges Number

3583

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anopina triangulana (Kearfott, 1908) (1)

Tortrix triangulana Kearfott, 1908 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence #620232

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for "the most prominent mark on the wing ... a large blackish triangle. (2)

Size

Forewing length 6.5-8.0 mm. (3)

Wingspan 14.5-15.5 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - pale gray mottled with dark gray and well defined dark triangle beyond midcosta. Females with distal half mostly fuscus clouded, obscuring the triangle, and the basal area is pale ocherous or tan. (3) Also see Obraztsov (1962). (1)

Range

California. (3)

Described material: San Francisco & San Diego, California, (W.S. Wright). (2)

Lectotype male designated by Obraztsov: San Diego, California, July 31, 1907 (W.S. Wright), in USNM. (1)

Season

Active April to November in southern California. (3)

Food

Larval host is willow (Salix). (4)

Print References

Kearfott, W.D., 1908. New North American Tortricidae and Tineina. Journal of The New York Entomological Society 16: 179 (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

William D. Kearfott (1864-1917)

Works Cited

1.	Anopina, a new genus of the Cnephasiini from the New World (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) Nicholas S.Obraztsov. 1962. American Museum Novitates 2082: 1-39.

2.	New North American Tortricidæ and Tineina W. D. Kearfott. 1908. Journal of The New York Entomological Society, 16: 167-188.

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

4.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

Contributed by tom murray on 6 December, 2008 - 3:29pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 31 January, 2018 - 4:33pm

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