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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Eugnosta » Eugnosta willettana - Hodges#3792 (Eugnosta willettana)

Species Eugnosta willettana - Hodges#3792

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

Tucson, AZ record. - Eugnosta willettana

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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 Eugnosta

Species willettana (Eugnosta willettana - Hodges#3792)

Hodges Number

3792

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eugnosta willettana (Comstock, 1939)

Carolella busckana willettana Comstock, 1939 (1)

Number 3791 in the 1983 Hodges Checklist.

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of Dr. George Willett (1879-1945), curator of Entomology and Chair at the American Museum of Natural History, who collected the first specimens.

Size

Winspan about 24-27 mm (USNM specimens, Comstock descriptions).

Larva to 12 mm (Comstock, 1941).

Range

Known from southern California and southern Arizona; Mexico. (2), (3), (4)

Holotype ♂ from Chuckwalla Springs, Riverside County, California, December 25, 1937 (G. Willett), in USNM. (4)

Food

The larva feeds in galls on brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) (Comstock, 1941).

See Also

Larvae very similar to Eugnosta busckana.

Print References

Comstock, J.A., 1939. The fauna and flora of El Segundo Sand Dunes. Two new Phaloniid moths. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 38(2): 115. (1)

Comstock, J.A., 1941. Additional notes on Carolella willettana. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 39(3): 201, pl.34.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Tortricid.net

John Henry Comstock (1849-1931

Works Cited

1.	The fauna and flora of El Segundo Sand Dunes. Two new Phaloniid moths John A. Comstock. 1939. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 38(2): 115-119.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Tucson, AZ record.

4.	World Catalogue of Insects, Vol. 5: Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) John Wesley Brown, Joaquin Baixeras. 2005. Apollo Books.

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 20 February, 2011 - 10:20am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 2 February, 2018 - 11:36am

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