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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Tortricini » Acleris » Acleris pulverosana - Hodges#3531 (Acleris pulverosana)

Species Acleris pulverosana - Hodges#3531

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

2382 Acleris hastiana 3531 - Acleris pulverosana

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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 Tortricini

Genus Acleris

Species pulverosana (Acleris pulverosana - Hodges#3531)

Hodges Number

3531

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acleris pulverosana (Walker, 1863)

Teras pulverosana Walker, 1863 (1) TL: Hudson Bay, Canada

Phylogenetic Sequence # 620031

Formerly treated as a synonym of Acleris hastiana (Linnaeus, 1758), which is extralimital. (Palearctic) (2)

Identification

Specimens identified by DNA analysis: (3)

Genitalia:

Food

In North America recorded on blueberry (Vaccinium), bog rosemary (Andromeda), Ceanothus, huckleberry (Gaylussacia), oak (Quercus), Rhododendron, and willow (Salix). (4)

Life Cycle

First instar larvae bore into buds. Later instars feed within shelters constructed by webbing together terminal leaves. Pupation occurs within the larval shelter or on the ground. (4)

Remarks

Formerly treated as a synonym of A. hastiana, a Palearctic species. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.	List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXVIII – Tortricites and Tineites Francis Walker. 1863. British Museum (Natural History), p.287-561.

2.	Immigrant Tortricidae: Holarctic versus Introduced Species in North America Gilligan, T.M., J.W. Brown, J, Baixeras. 2020. Insects, 11(9), 594: 1-59.

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

4.	LBAM ID - tools for diagnosing light brown apple moth and related western U.S. leafrollers - Epiphyas postvittana (Walker).

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by John Davis on 25 July, 2009 - 6:54pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy, Blocky, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 11 October, 2023 - 5:49pm

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