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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Olethreutini » Olethreutes » Olethreutes clavana - Hodges#2799 (Olethreutes clavana)

Species Olethreutes clavana - Hodges#2799

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

Olethreutini moth #2 - Olethreutes clavana

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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 Olethreutes

Species clavana (Olethreutes clavana - Hodges#2799)

Hodges Number

2799

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Olethreutes clavana (Walker, 1863)

Carpocapsa clavana Walker, 1863 (1)

Exartema clavanum

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "club-shaped" for the "pale cinereous discal stripe, which widens much beyond the middle." (1)

Size

Wingspan 15-17 mm. (2)

Identification

Range

Records from Iowa, Indiana and Quebec to Maine, south to Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky and Kansas. (3), (2)

Food

Larval hosts include American elm (Ulmus americana) and hazelnut (Corylus). (4)

Print References

Walker, F. 1863. Tortricites & Tineites. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 28: 395. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

Contributed by tom murray on 20 February, 2006 - 3:59pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 November, 2023 - 9:22am

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