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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Grapholitini » Ephippiphora » Grapholita conversana - Hodges#3435 (Ephippiphora conversana)

Species Ephippiphora conversana - Grapholita conversana - Hodges#3435

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

tiny silver metallic moth - Ephippiphora conversana

Grapholita conversana - Ephippiphora conversana

Tortricid Moth - Ephippiphora conversana

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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 Grapholitini

Genus Ephippiphora

Species conversana (Grapholita conversana - Hodges#3435)

Hodges Number

3435

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Grapholita conversana Walsingham, 1879

Enarmonia wana Kearfott 1907 (1)

Enarmonia cupida Meyrick, 1912 (2)

Enarmonia conversana

Laspeyresia conversana

Grapholita wana

Grapholita cupida

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "inverted."

Size

Forewing length 4.3-5.5 mm. (3)

Wingspan 8-12 mm. (4)

Range

Records from British Columbia to California, Arizona and Idaho. (5), (3)

Type locality: John Day's River, Camp Watson, Oregon.

Food

Larval host is clover (Trifolium). (3)

Print References

Walsingham, Lord. 1879. North-American Torticidae. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum 4: 66; Pl.75, f.7. (6)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - live & pinned images

CalPhotos – pinned image

Lord Walsingham

Works Cited

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

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

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

4.	Revision of the North American moths of the subfamilies Laspeyresiinae and Olethreutinae Carl Heinrich. 1926. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 132: 1-216.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	North-American Torticidae Thomas, Lord Walsingham. 1879. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. 4.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 1 June, 2009 - 5:18pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 26 December, 2017 - 9:56am

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