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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Rhopobota » Dietz's Rhopobota - Hodges#3277 (Rhopobota dietziana)

Species Rhopobota dietziana - Dietz's Rhopobota - Hodges#3277

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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 Rhopobota
Species dietziana (Dietz's Rhopobota - Hodges#3277)
Hodges Number
3277
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Rhopobota dietziana (Kearfott, 1907)
Epinotia dietziana Kearfott, 1907 (1)
Norma dietziana
Enarmonia dietziana
Phylogenetic sequence #621189
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet in honor of German-born physician and amateur entomologist William G. Dietz (1848-1932) of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, who collected some of the first specimens. (1)
Size
Wingspan 10-15 mm. (2), (1), (3)
Identification
Adult - see original description in Print References. (1)

Genitalia:
♀
♂
Range
Records from the Eastern half of the United States and adjacent Canada, Oklahoma. (2), (1)
Types: Hampton, NH (S. Albert Shaw, May 28th to July 3rd); Hazleton, PA (W.G. Dietz, May 19th to June 8th).
Food
Heinrich (1923) and Ferguson (1953) reared them on common winterberry (Ilex verticillata). (3), (4)
Eiseman (2014) reared them from leaf mines on inkberry (Ilex glabra). (5) See Bugtracks for the full story as well as suspected hosts American holly (Ilex opaca) and mountain holly (Ilex mucronata).
Life Cycle
Larvae are initially leafminers and eventually abandon their mines and feed in shelters created by crumpling or tying the leaves (Eiseman, 2014).
Print References
Eiseman, C.S. 2014. Notes on the larval habitats and parasitoids of Rhopobota dietziana (Kearfott, 1907) (Tortricidae: Olethreutinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 68(3): 218-220 (PDF)
Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New North American torticidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 92 (1)
Internet References
North American Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life (BOLD)
William D. Kearfott (Wikipedia)
Works Cited
1.New North American Tortricidae.
William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.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.
4.Host records for Lepidoptera reared in Eastern North America
D. C. Ferguson. 1975. United States Department of Agriculture 1521: 1-45.
5.Rhopobota dietziana
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 28 September, 2009 - 11:17pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Randy Hardy, Fyn Kynd, Blocky, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 2 August, 2024 - 10:03pm

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