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Species Platphalonidia felix - Hodges#3831

Arizona Moth for ID - Platphalonidia felix

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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).

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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)

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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