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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Olethreutini » Phaecasiophora » Macramé Moth - Hodges#2771 (Phaecasiophora confixana)

Species Phaecasiophora confixana - Macramé Moth - Hodges#2771

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

Phaecasiophora confixana ? - Phaecasiophora confixana

Olethreutes, possibly merrickana? - Phaecasiophora confixana

Phaecasiophora confixana (Macramé Moth) - Phaecasiophora confixana

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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 Phaecasiophora

Species confixana (Macramé Moth - Hodges#2771)

Hodges Number

2771

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phaecasiophora confixana (Walker, 1863)

Sciaphila confixana Walker, 1863 (1)

Sciaphila perductana Walker, 1863 (1), (2), (3)

Sericoris mutabilana Clemens, 1865 (4), (2), (3)

Phaecasiophora mutabilana (5)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin confixus meaning "fastened (especially with nails)."

Size

Wingspan 17-20 mm. (2)

Range

Records from Illinois, Ontario and New Hampshire, south to South Carolina, Mississippi and Texas. (Heinrich, 1926(2)), (MPG(6)), (BugGuide)

Print References

Walker, F., 1863. Tortricites & Tineites. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 28: 340. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (6)

BOLD Systems

Francis Walker (1809-1874)

Works Cited

1.	List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXVIII – Tortricites and Tineites Francis Walker. 1863. British Museum (Natural History), p.287-561.

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.	ftp.funet.fi -- Markku Savela

4.	North American Micro-Lepidoptera Clemens, Brackenridge. 1865. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, Volume 5: 139-47.

5.	VI. Contributions to a knowledge of North American moths. Augustus Radcliffe Grote. 1873. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 1: 73-94.

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Bob Patterson on 28 May, 2010 - 2:52pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 8 January, 2018 - 12:17pm

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