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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Thyraylia » Thyraylia bana - Hodges#3843 (Thyraylia bana)

Species Thyraylia bana - Hodges#3843

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

An Unidentified Tortricid - Thyraylia bana

Thyraylia bana - Hodges#3843 - Thyraylia bana

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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 Tortricinae

Tribe Cochylini

Genus Thyraylia

Species bana (Thyraylia bana - Hodges#3843)

Hodges Number

3843

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Thyraylia bana (Kearfott, 1907)

Phalonia bana Kearfott, 1907 (1)

Phalonia rhodites Meyrick, 1912 (2)

Number 3775 in the 1983 Hodges Checklist.

Phylogenetic Sequence # 620206

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. (3), (2)

Size

Wingspan 12-14 mm. (1)

Identification

Adult - see original description in Print References. (1)

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Range

Scattered records from the eastern half of the United States. (4)

Type specimens: Chicago, Illinois, June (J.H. Reading). Date later revised (see Forbes 1923) to September.

Remarks

Pensoft 2018 #118:Lepidoptera of Canada and Alaska by Pohl, pg. 125. The name Thyraylia bana has been dropped.

Print References

Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 33(1): 73. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

William D. Kearfott (1864-1917)

Works Cited

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

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

3.	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.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 25 October, 2010 - 5:09am
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Randy Hardy, lee_penner, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 26 October, 2023 - 9:00pm

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