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Species Cenopis saracana - Hodges#3724

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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 Sparganothini

Genus Cenopis

Species saracana (Cenopis saracana - Hodges#3724)

Hodges Number

3724

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cenopis saracana Kearfott, 1907 (1)

Cenopis austera Meyrick, 1912 (2)

Sparganothis saracana

Phylogenetic sequence #620426

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 19-23 mm. (1)

Identification

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

Range

Records from Missouri east to New Jersey, south to Florida, west to east Texas. (4), (1)

Food

Kearfott (1909) reported the larvae as leafrollers (crumpling leaves) of sassafras (548). (5)

Print References

Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 68. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

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

5.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

Contributed by v belov on 14 November, 2010 - 9:39pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 7 February, 2018 - 10:11am

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