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Genus Epinotia

Tortricid - Epinotia transmissana Red-Striped Needleworm Moth - Epinotia radicana Dichrorampha radicicolana? - Epinotia miscana Epinotia subviridis Epinotia seorsa - male Epinotia biangulana - Epinotia - male Epinotia cercocarpana - Epinotia cercocarpana Epinotia bigemina - female
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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 Olethreutinae
Tribe Eucosmini
Genus Epinotia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Epinotia Hübner, [1825]
Proteopteryx Walsingham, 1879 (1), (2)
Numbers
More than 80 species in North America north of Mexico, 55 in the west. (3)
Print References
(4)
Works Cited
1.North-American Torticidae
Thomas, Lord Walsingham. 1879. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. 4.
2.Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae
Carl Heinrich. 1923. United States National Museum Bulletin 123: 1-298.
3.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
4.Resurrection of Catastega (Clemens) and revision of the Epinotia vertumnana (Zeller) species-group (Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)
Richard L. Brown. 1986. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 40(4): 327-346.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 29 May, 2006 - 4:55pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 15 November, 2017 - 1:46pm

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