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Species Hedya nubiferana - Green Budworm Moth - Hodges#2862

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Green Budworm Moth - Hodges#2862? - Hedya nubiferana Hedya nubiferana Hedya nubiferana - Hedya nubiferana Pennsylvania Moth - Hedya nubiferana Pennsylvania Moth - Hedya nubiferana H. nubiferana ex Prunus avium - Hedya nubiferana 620636 Hedya nubiferana 2862 - Hedya nubiferana Hedya nubiferana
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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 Olethreutini
Genus Hedya
Species nubiferana (Green Budworm Moth - Hodges#2862 )

Hodges Number

2862

Other Common Names

Marbled Orchard Tortrix

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hedya nubiferana (Haworth, 1811)
Tortrix nubiferana Haworth, 1811
Argyroploce variegana Hubner, [1796-1799]
Hedya dimidioalba (Retzius, 1783)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin nubifer meaning "cloudy."

Numbers

Five Hedya species are found in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan: 17-20 mm. (2)
TL = 11 mm (3)

Identification

Adult - FW mottled gray-brown, whitish beyond median area. (3)

Range

British Columbia and Ontario; northeastern United States to Nova Scotia . (4), (5)

Season

Adults are most common from May to August.

Food

Larvae feed on Crataegus and Prunus spinosa. (5)

Remarks

Introduced from Europe. (3)

See Also

Hedya ochroleucana

Print References

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States, An Identification Guide, p. 81.88.(6)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (7)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)
Hedya_nubiferana (Wikipedia) (9)
Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767-1833)

Works Cited

1.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
2.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.
3.Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.
4.Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone
McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.
5.New apple pest, Hedya nubiferana (Haworth), discovered in Ohio
Roy W. Rings. 1992. The Ohio Journal of Science, 92(3): 72.
6.Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States, An Identification Guide
Gilligan, Todd M., Donald J. Wright, and Loran D. Gibson. 2008. Ohio Biological Survey, P.O. Box 21370, Columbus, Ohio 43221-0370.
7.North American Moth Photographers Group
8.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
9.Wikipedia
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 27 May, 2010 - 1:06pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 1 January, 2018 - 8:46pm

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