Species Cenopis lamberti - Hodges#3725.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

St. Andrews leaf miner on Symplocos tinctoria SA197A 2015 2 - Cenopis lamberti

St. Andrews leaf miner on Symplocos tinctoria SA439 2016 5 - Cenopis lamberti

St. Andrews leaf miner on Symplocos tinctoria SA439 2016 6 - Cenopis lamberti

St. Andrews leaf miner on Symplocos tinctoria SA934 Tortricid 2017 2 - Cenopis lamberti

St. Andrews leaf miner on Symplocos tinctoria SA1704 2020 4 - Cenopis lamberti

St. Andrews leaf miner on Symplocos tinctoria SA1704 2020 6 - Cenopis lamberti

8/12/2020 Cenopis lamberti - Cenopis lamberti

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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 Sparganothini

Genus Cenopis

Species lamberti (Cenopis lamberti - Hodges#3725.1)

Hodges Number

3725.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cenopis lamberti (Franclemont, 1986)

Sparganothis lamberti Franclemont, 1986 (1)

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of "the late Robert Lambert who completed a preliminary review of the genus Sparganothis for his doctoral dissertation at Cornell University."

Range

Virginia to Florida, west to eastern Texas. (2)

Holotype male: Cherry Hill Recreation Area, Route 107, 2000 ft., Oconee County, South Carolina, 22 August 1958 (J. Franclemont). (1)

Food

Purportedly reared once from a larva collected on Persea (Lauraceae) (2), but the host plant may have been misidentified. Now known to feed on the superficially similar shrub Symplocos tinctoria, initially as a leafminer and later as a leaftier (3).

Print References

Franclemont, J.G., 1986. New species of tortricid moths from Eastern North America (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 88(1): 56. (1)

Lambert, R.L. 1950. Revision of the moths of the subfamily Sparganothidinae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 502 pp.

Internet References

Species page at Moth Photographers Group

John G. Franclemont (1912-2004)

Works Cited

1.	New species of tortricid moths from Eastern North America (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). John. G. Franclemont. 1986. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 88(1): 56-62.

2.	The Moths of North America north of Mexico Fascicle 8.1 Sparganothini and Atteriini Jerry A. Powell & John W. Brown. 2012. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

3.	New records of leaf-mining Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) in North America, with the description of a new species of Grapholita Eiseman, C.S., K.A. Austin, J.A. Blyth & T.S. Feldman. 2020. Zootaxa, 4748(3): 514–530.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 3 January, 2010 - 9:45am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 April, 2020 - 7:16am

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