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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Cochylichroa » Cochylichroa viscana - Hodges#3783 (Cochylichroa viscana)

Species Cochylichroa viscana - Hodges#3783

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

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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 Cochylichroa

Species viscana (Cochylichroa viscana - Hodges#3783)

Hodges Number

3783

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cochylichroa viscana (Kearfott, 1907) (1)

Phalonia viscana Kearfott, 1907 (2)

Phalonia peganitis Meyrick, 1912 (3)

Recavicula viscana

Phylogenetic sequence #620140

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 "barbaric" practice. (4), (3)

Size

Wingspan about 12 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - see original description in Print References. (2)

Range

Scattered records from the east and Midwest. (5)

Type locality: Essex County Park, Essex County, New Jersey, May 20th (Kearfott). (2)

Print References

Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 33(1): 84. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

William D. Kearfott (1864-1917)

Works Cited

1.	New genera, new species, and new combinations in new world Cochylina (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae) Brown, J.W. 2019. Zootaxa, 4671 (2): 195–222.

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

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

4.	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.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Jason J. Dombroskie on 14 April, 2011 - 3:37pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Chuck Entz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 29 September, 2019 - 7:25pm

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