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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Pseudexentera » Pseudexentera maracana - Hodges#3254 (Pseudexentera maracana)

Species Pseudexentera maracana - Hodges#3254

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

Pseudexentera maracana? - Pseudexentera maracana

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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 Pseudexentera

Species maracana (Pseudexentera maracana - Hodges#3254)

Hodges Number

3254

Other Common Names

Banded Pseudexentera (1)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pseudexentera maracana (Kearfott, 1907) (2), (3)

Proteopteryx maracana Kearfott, 1907 (4)

Proteopteryx praescripta Meyrick, 1912 (5)

Synonym: Exentera maracana (Heinrich, 1923)

Phylogenetic sequence #621161

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet is part of a series of Kearfott names originating from various alphabetical rhyming schemes with no meaning, often derided by subsequent authors as "nonsense names." See Brown (2001) for a humorous take on this "barbarous" practice. (6), (5)

Numbers

There are 17 named species of the genus Pseudexentera in America north of Mexico. (7)

Size

Kearfott (1907) listed the wingspan 14-16.5 mm. (4)

Miller (1986) listed the forewing length. (2)

♂ 7-7.5 mm.

♀ 6-7 mm.

Identification

Kearfott (1907) original description as Proteopteryx maracana is available online in the print preferences. (4)

Miller (1986) revised description is available in PDF. (2)

Specimen identified by DNA analysis. (BOLD) (8)

Range

Quebec to New York, south to Oklahoma, Texas and Mississippi. (1), (2), (1), (9)]

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with some collection dates.

Paratyes: Cincinnati, OH (Miss Annette F. Braun, March 26th to April 10th).

Season

The main flight period appears to be January to July. (7), (2)

Food

The larval host is Crataegus sp. (Hawthorn). (2), (1)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (7)

Print References

Beadle, D., & S. Leckie, 2012. Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. pp. 118-119. (1)

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States, An Identification Guide. Ohio Biological Survey, p. 143.226. (3)

Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 33(1): 46. (4)

Miller, W.E., 1986. The species of Pseudexentera (Tortricidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 40(3): 231; figs. 17, 35, 52. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group. (7)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (10)

William D. Kearfott (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.

2.	The Species of Pseudexentera (Tortricidae) William E. Miller. 1986. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 40(3), 218-237.

3.	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.

4.	New North American Tortricidae. William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.

5.	On some impossible specific names in micro-lepidoptera. Edward Meyrick. 1912. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 48: 32-36.

6.	Presidential address, 2000: Nomenclatural nonsense - flying in the face of a farcical code. John W. Brown. 2001. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55(1): 1-7.

7.	North American Moth Photographers Group

8.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

9.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

10.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 September, 2010 - 10:38am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 December, 2017 - 1:16pm

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