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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Cagiva » Cagiva cephalanthana - Hodges#3818 (Cagiva cephalanthana)

Species Cagiva cephalanthana - Hodges#3818

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

Cagiva cephalanthana - Cagiva cephalanthana

Florida Moth for ID - Cagiva cephalanthana

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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 Cagiva

Species cephalanthana (Cagiva cephalanthana - Hodges#3818)

Hodges Number

3818

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

cephalanthana (Heinrich, 1921) (1)

Phalonia cephalanthana Heinrich, 1921

This species was number 3818 in the 1983 Hodges Checklist.

Explanation of Names

Cagiva cephalanthana (Heinrich, 1921) was formerly unassigned to genus in Meltzer & Brown (2014) (2). Pogue (1986) proposed the genus Cagiva for this species in his unpublished Ph.D. dissertation and is nomen nudum (unavaillable). Brown (2019) (1) published the name Cagiva, new genus.

Identification

Genitalia:

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Print References

Heinrich, C., 1921. Some Lepidoptera likely to be confused with the pink bollworm. Journal of Agricultural Research, 20: 825. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	New genera, new species, and new combinations in new world Cochylina (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae) Brown, J.W. 2019. Zootaxa, 4671 (2): 195–222.

2.	An updated check list of the Cochylina (Tortricidae, Tortricinae, Euliini) of North America north of Mexico including... Metzler, E.H. & Brown, J.W. 2014. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 68(4): 274–282.

3.	Some Lepidoptera Likely To Be Confused with the Pink Bollworm Heinrich, Carl. 1921. Journal of Agricultural Research. v. 20, no. 10, pp. 820-821.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 26 January, 2010 - 8:01pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 23 January, 2024 - 3:49pm

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