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Species Olethreutes appendiceum - Serviceberry Leafroller - Hodges#2821

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Olethreutini
Genus Olethreutes
Species appendiceum (Serviceberry Leafroller - Hodges#2821)
Hodges Number
2821
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Olethreutes appendiceum (Zeller, 1875)
Exartema appendiceum Zeller, 1875 (1)
Cymolomia appendicea
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet is Latin meaning "supplement, addition." Zeller describes in detail how it differs from similar species.
Size
Wingspan 14-16 mm. (2)
Identification
Range
Records from Tennessee and North Carolina, north to Maine and Quebec. In the west from Alberta to British Columbia, south to Washington. (3)
Type locality: near Beverly, Massachusetts (Burgess, July 10).
Food
Larval hosts include oak, alder, beech, birch, cranberrybush, current, cottonwood/aspen, maple, plum, willow, witch hazel, hophornbeam (Ostrya), sweet fern (Comptonia), hayscented fern (Dennstaedtia). (4)
Life Cycle
Mated pair; larva; pupa; adult
Print References
Zeller, P.C., 1875. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, besonders der Microlepidopteren. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 25: 275. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808-1883)
Works Cited
1.Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, besonders der Microlepidopteren, vol. 3.
Phillip Christoph Zeller. 1875. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 25: 207-360.
2.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.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database
Contributed by tom murray on 27 June, 2009 - 5:28pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 2 April, 2022 - 5:24pm

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