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Subspecies Carposina ottawana ottawana - Peach Fruit Moth

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Carposinoidea (Fruitworm Moths)
Family Carposinidae (Fruitworm Moths)
Genus Carposina
Species ottawana (Carposina ottawana - Hodges#2314)
Subspecies ottawana (Peach Fruit Moth)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Carposina niponensis
Carposina sasakii Matsumura, 1900 is a replacement name for Carposina niponensis Walsingham 1900 (1)
Size
wingspan 13–17 mm.
Identification
Genitalia:
Range
Texas and expanding. This species was introduced from Asia. (2)
Remarks
introduced pest of peach, apple, pear, apricot and plum
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Palaearctic Carposinidae with description of a new genus and new species (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)
Diakonoff, A. 1989. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 251: 1-155.
2.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 17 October, 2010 - 11:47am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Beatriz Moisset, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 31 August, 2023 - 10:50pm

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