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Species Cacocharis cymotoma - Hodges#2704

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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 Cacocharis
Species cymotoma (Cacocharis cymotoma - Hodges#2704)
Hodges Number
2704
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cacocharis cymotoma (Meyrick, 1917)
Argyroploce cymotoma Meyrick, 1917
Olethreutes canofascia Powell, 1995 (1)
Size
Wingspan about 13-14 mm (Meyrick, 1917).
Range
Florida, the Caribbean, Central America and much of South America. (1)
Holotype Male: British Guiana, Bartica (Parish, Jan 1913) (BMNH). (1)
Food
Larval host is the Tahitian gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acidus). (2), (1)
Print References
Meyrick, 1917. Descriptions of South American microlepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1917: 26.