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3251 Bare-patched Leafroller  - Pseudexentera hodsoni

3251 Bare-patched Leafroller - Pseudexentera hodsoni
Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma, USA
April 1, 2009
Supported by DNA barcoding match as 3251 – Pseudexentera spoliana, BOLD LPOKA1014-09
This specimen is shown here: BOLD:AAA3121
Found at UV light near pond in wooded area of a flood plain.

Moved to Pseudexentera hodsoni
Moved from Bare-patched Oak Leafroller.

Identification at BOLD as Pseudexentera spoliana was based on barcode similarity to two hodsoni specimens from the USNM collection which were apparently mislabeled at BOLD as spoliana.

Moved
Moved from Pseudexentera. Is there an official list of common names with a common name for this species? I found at least two different names via Google.

 
"Official" Common Names
There are relatively few.

The "common" name Oak Olethreutid Leafroller Moth seen on this Kentucky List is not really a common name. It is a group name applied to two different species of a kind of Olethreutine moth, ones that do leafrolling in oaks (there are a number of these).

The Entomological Society of America has a list of about 2,000 common names of insects and a proposed system for registering new common names. The only Pseudexentera on the list, Pseudexentera mali Freeman, is given the common name pale apple leafroller [moth]. Note that I added the word moth to the name. To my mind this is as close to "official" as you can get.

Yet I believe that many common names exist that deserve respect and should be accorded preference (MPG is perhaps lowest in the pecking order, in my opinion). All comon names given in modern books (Covell, Wagner, the new Moths of Western North America) should be used and used as the exclusive common name. Lists maintained by some organizations (Heppner's Florida Checklist, Ontario Lepidopterists, UK Moths, Several IPM sites using the same list such as Bugwood.org, are examples).

We should not be afraid to coin common names for species that do not already have them. But I do feel that we should respect common names already in general usage. Common names coined by me at MPG or on my personal moth pages do not fall into this category. If a better name can be thought of it ought to be tried out.

I don't remember how I came up with "Bare-patched" Leafroller Moth. Spoliana in Latin refers to a stripped-off animal skin or the armor removed from a dead warrior. "Something" Oak Leafroller Moth might be better if a common names is insisted upon.

 
Common name source
I found the common name at the Moth Photographers Group site.

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