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Genus Rhyacionia - Pine Tip Moths

Small Moth, Rhyacionia ridgidana? - Rhyacionia rigidana Rhyacionia neomexicana  - Rhyacionia neomexicana Moth for ID - Rhyacionia micro - Rhyacionia Tortricidae: Rhyacionia - Rhyacionia Unknown Moth - Rhyacionia buoliana Rhyacionia rigidana Rhyacionia neomexicana
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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 Rhyacionia (Pine Tip Moths)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Rhyacionia Hubner, [1825]
Numbers
About 40 species worldwide, 16 in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. (1)
Print References
Lange Jr., W.H. 1937. California pine tip moths of the genus Rhyacionia. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 36(1): 25-34, pl.11-15
Powell, J.A. 1978. Nearctic pine tip moths of the genus Rhyacionia: Biosystematic review (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Olethreutinae). USDA Agriculture Handbook 514: 1-51 (PDF) (2)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.Nearctic pine tip moths of the genus Rhyacionia: Biosystematic review (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Olethreutinae)
Powell, Jerry A. 1978. United States Department of Agriculture.