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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Platphalonidia » Platphalonidia felix - Hodges#3831 (Platphalonidia felix)

Species Platphalonidia felix - Hodges#3831

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Cochylini
Genus Platphalonidia
Species felix (Platphalonidia felix - Hodges#3831)
Hodges Number
3831
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Platphalonidia felix (Walsingham, 1895)(1)
Phalonia felix Walsingham, 1895 (2)
Phylogenetic sequence #620167
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet felix is Latin meaning "happy." Heinrich (1923) later named a tortricid "infelix," meaning "unhappy." (3), (2)
Phalonidia felix was listed as #3760 in the 1983 Hodges Checklist.
Size
Forewing length 6.5-9 mm. (4)
Range
Scattered records throughout North America. (5), (6), (4)
Type locality: USA: Colorado, Loveland @ 5,000-10,000' (Smith).
Moth Photographers Group map
Bug Guide data
Food
Powell & Opler(4) report larval hosts of Douglas' ragwort, Senecio flaccidus L.
and dune ragwort, Senecio blochmaniae Greene.
Larvae were reported to have been reared on Artemisia L. (Dyar, 1901)
See Also
Compare to related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Dyar, H.G., 1901. List of Lepidoptera taken at Williams, Arizona by Messrs. Schwarz and Barber I. Papilionoidea, Sphingoidea, Bombycoidea, Tineioidea. (in part). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 5: p. 231.
Powell & Opler, 2009: 158, pl. 20, fig. 7. (4)
Razowski, J., 1985. On the generic groups Saphenista and Cochylis (Tortricidae). Nota lepidopterologica. 8(1): 58
Razowski, J., 2011. Diagnoses and Remarks on Genera of Tortricidae, 2: Cochylini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 39(156): 397-414
Walsingham, Lord. 1895. New species of North American Tortricidæ. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1895. 498. (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (7)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)
Lord Walsingham (1843-1919)
Works Cited
1.A molecular phylogeny of Cochylina, with confirmation of its relationship to Euliina (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Brown, J.W. L. Aarvik, M. Heikkilä, R. Brown, M. Mutanen. 2019. Systematic Entomology.
2.XXI. New Species of North American Tortricidae.
Lord Walsingham. 1895. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1895: 495-518.
3.Epiblema infelix
4.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
5.Pinnacles National Monument California Moth Checklist
6.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
7.North American Moth Photographers Group
8.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 October, 2009 - 10:39am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy, Blocky
Last updated 4 February, 2022 - 8:56am

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