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Species Eucosma parmatana - Variable Eucosma - Hodges#2937

Eucosma parmatana? #2 - Eucosma parmatana

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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 Eucosma

No Taxon (parmatana group)

Species parmatana (Variable Eucosma - Hodges#2937)

Hodges Number

2937

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucosma parmatana (Clemens, 1860) (1)

Ephippiphora parmatana Clemens, 1860 (2)

Thiodia alterana Heinrich, 1923 (3)

Steganoptycha crispana Clemens, 1865 (3)

Epinotia kennebecana Kearfott, 1907 (3), (4)

Proteopteryx marmontana Kearfott, 1907 (5), (4)

Thiodia perfuscana Heinrich, 1923 (3)

Thiodia sinestrigana McDunnough, 1938 (3)

Phaneta parmatana

Phylogenetic sequence #620832

Size

Heinrich (1926) did not specify wingspan. (6)

Moth Photographers Group has a specimen with 12 mm. wingspan listed. (7)

Identification

Genitalia:

Range

Moth Photographers Group – distribution & flight-period chart

Season

Adult records on Block Island, RI, range from early August to late September.(8)

Food

Asters

Remarks

BOLD data seems to suggest that E. parmatana may be part of a complex. There are at least 8 BIN groups containing specimens identified as that species. All those groups seem closely related. They also include specimens identified as E. marmontana and ochroterminana. There is a lot of variation: BOLD:AAA5484, BOLD:AAA5485, BOLD:AAA5486, BOLD:AAA5487, BOLD:AAA5488, BOLD:AAA5490, BOLD:AAA5491, BOLD:ABZ5526. (Steve Nanz - 3/21/2018)

Print References

Clemens, 1860. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 12: 352. (2)

Heinrich, C. 1923. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 123: 47; pl. 15, fig. 103 (male genitalia) (9) (Thiodia marmontana)

Heinrich, C. 1926. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 132: 47. (6)

Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New Micro-Lepidoptera. Canadian Entomologist. 39(5): 155, 157. (Proteopteryx marmontana, Epinotia kennebecana)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (7)

Tortricidae.com (3)

BOLD Systems - pinned images of DNA supported specimens

Ohio State University – image of pinned adult and male genitalia

Brackenridge Clemens

Works Cited

1.	Revised world catalogue of Eucopina, Eucosma, Pelochrista, and Phaneta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini) Todd M. Gilligan, Donald J. Wright. 2013. Zootaxa 3746(2): 301–337.

2.	Contributions to American lepidopterology - No. 6. Brackenridge Clemens. 1860. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 345-362.

3.	Gilligan, T. M., J. Baixeras, J. W. Brown & K. R. Tuck. 2014. T@RTS: Online, World Catalogue of the Tortricidae.

4.	New micro-leidoptera W.D. Kearfott. 1907. The Canadian Entomologist 39(1-6): 1-9, 53-60, 77-84, 121-128, 153-160, 211-212.

5.	Eucosma Hübner of the contiguous United States and Canada (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini) Donald J. Wright & Todd M. Gilligan. 2015. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Fascicle 9.4.

6.	Revision of the North American moths of the subfamilies Laspeyresiinae and Olethreutinae Carl Heinrich. 1926. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 132: 1-216.

7.	North American Moth Photographers Group

8.	Block Island Moths

9.	Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae Carl Heinrich. 1923. United States National Museum Bulletin 123: 1-298.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 13 February, 2010 - 9:50am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Tony-2, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Blocky, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 6 June, 2024 - 5:34pm

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