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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Epiblema » Tripartite Epiblema - Hodges#3184 (Epiblema tripartitana)

Species Epiblema tripartitana - Tripartite Epiblema - Hodges#3184

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

Olethreutinae, in situ - Epiblema tripartitana

Epiblema tripartitana - Hodges#3184 - Epiblema tripartitana

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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 Epiblema

Species tripartitana (Tripartite Epiblema - Hodges#3184)

Hodges Number

3184

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Epiblema tripartitana (Zeller, 1875) (1), (2)

Paedisca tripartitana Zeller, 1875 (3), (1)

Phylogenetic sequence #621078

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin tripartita meaning "threefold, tripartite" for the three-part maculation of the wings.

Size

Wingspan 14-21 mm. (1)

Identification

Revised description is online. (2002) (2)

Range

New Mexico to Minnesota and eastward. (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Type locality: Texas (Boll.

Food

Larval hosts include: (9)

threadleaf snakeweed (Gutierrezia microcephala)

great coneflower (Rudbeckia maxima)

mangrove (Conocarpus)

goldenrod (Solidago)

Remarks

Wright was unable to find characters of the male or female genitalia that would separate E. tripartitana from E. glenni. (2)

See Also

Epiblema glenni

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States: p. 122.180. (8)

Wright, D.J. 2002. A New Species of Epiblema previously confused with E. tripartitana (Zeller) and E. infellx (Heinrich) (Tortricidae). p. 277, fig 2, 5. (2)

Zeller, P.C., 1875. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, besonders der Microlepidopteren. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 25: 308. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Philipp Christoph Zeller

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae Carl Heinrich. 1923. United States National Museum Bulletin 123: 1-298.

2.	A New Species of Epiblema previously confused with E. tripartitana (Zeller) and E. infellx (Heinrich) (Tortricidae) Donald J. Wright. 2002. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 56(4): 277-285.

3.	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.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	South Carolina Moth Species

6.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

7.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

8.	Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States, An Identification Guide Gilligan, Todd M., Donald J. Wright, and Loran D. Gibson. 2008. Ohio Biological Survey, P.O. Box 21370, Columbus, Ohio 43221-0370.

9.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 August, 2009 - 9:29pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Blocky
Last updated 2 May, 2022 - 7:37pm

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