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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Catastega » Catastega aceriella - Hodges#3334 (Catastega aceriella)

Species Catastega aceriella - Hodges#3334

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

Tortricid in Maple Leaves - Catastega aceriella

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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 Catastega

Species aceriella (Catastega aceriella - Hodges#3334)

Hodges Number

3334

Other Common Names

Maple Trumpet Skeletonizer Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Catastega aceriella Clemens, 1861 (1)

Heyda signatata

Gelechia aceriella

Enarmonia aceriella

Epinotia aceriella

Phylogenetic sequence #621265

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from the host plant genus (Acer).

Size

Wingspan 16-17 mm. (2)

Identification

Genitalia:

Range

Southern Ontario and Nova Scotia south to North Carolina and Tennessee, west to Illinois and Minnesota. (3)

Food

Larvae feed on the leaves of maple (Acer). (1)

Print References

Clemens, B., 1861. Micro-lepidopterous larvae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 1: 87. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Brackenridge Clemens (1825-1867)

Works Cited

1.	Micro-Lepidopterous Larvae. Notes on a Few Species, the Imagos of Which Are Probably Undescribed Clemens, B. 1861. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 1: 75-87.

2.	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.

3.	Resurrection of Catastega (Clemens) and revision of the Epinotia vertumnana (Zeller) species-group (Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) Richard L. Brown. 1986. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 40(4): 327-346.

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 10 July, 2010 - 2:12pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 18 October, 2023 - 3:37pm

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