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Species Eucosma raracana - Reddish Eucosma - Hodges#2928

Phaneta raracana - Hodges #2928 (Phaneta raracana) - Eucosma raracana

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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 Eucosma

No Taxon (parmatana group)

Species raracana (Reddish Eucosma - Hodges#2928)

Hodges Number

2928

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucosma raracana (Kearfott, 1907) (1)

Thiodia raracana Kearfott, 1907 (2)

Thiodia fastidiosa Meyrick, 1912 (3)

Phaneta raracana

Phylogenetic sequence #620837

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet is part of a series of Kearfott names originating from various alphabetical rhyming schemes with no meaning, often derided by subsequent authors as "nonsense names." See Brown (2001) for a humorous take on this "barbarous" practice. (4), (3)

Size

Wingspan 11-14 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - see original description in Print References. (2)

Range

Eastern half of the United States and adjacent Canada. (5)

Paratypes: Montclair and Essex County, NJ (Kearfott, 8-26 Aug.); Covington, KY (A. Busck, Aug.); Washington County, AR (A.J. Brown, Jul.); Hastings, FL (A.J. Brown, Oct.); USNM labeled "Salidago, 11/884" ("from Glovers coll. 83.).

Food

Goldenrod (MassMoths)

Print References

Kearfott, W. D., 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 33(1):44 (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcoding Life

Maryland Biodiversity Project

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.	New North American Tortricidae. William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.

3.	On some impossible specific names in micro-lepidoptera. Edward Meyrick. 1912. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 48: 32-36.

4.	Presidential address, 2000: Nomenclatural nonsense - flying in the face of a farcical code. John W. Brown. 2001. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55(1): 1-7.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Dennis Profant on 30 July, 2005 - 8:14pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, anitagould, Nick Block, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 13 March, 2023 - 6:29pm

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