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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Epinotia » Epinotia lomonana - Hodges#3342 (Epinotia lomonana)

Species Epinotia lomonana - Hodges#3342

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

Tortricidae: Epinotia lomonana - Epinotia lomonana

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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 Epinotia

Species lomonana (Epinotia lomonana - Hodges#3342)

Hodges Number

3342

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Epinotia lomonana (Kearfott, 1907)

Tortrix lomonana Kearfott, 1907 (1)

Tortrix veneratrix Meyrick, 1912 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence #621250

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. (3), (2)

Size

Wingspan 18-19 mm. (1)

Food

Larval hosts include vine maple (Acer circinatum), California buckthorn (Frangula californica), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) hollyleaf cherry (Prunus ilicifolia) and pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica). (4)

Print References

Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New micro-lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist 39(3): 82. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

William D. Kearfott (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	New micro-leidoptera W.D. Kearfott. 1907. The Canadian Entomologist 39(1-6): 1-9, 53-60, 77-84, 121-128, 153-160, 211-212.

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

3.	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.

4.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

Contributed by John Davis on 25 July, 2009 - 6:34pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 November, 2017 - 5:15pm

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