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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Eucopina » Shortleaf Pinecone Borer Moth - Hodges#3072 (Eucopina cocana)

Species Eucopina cocana - Shortleaf Pinecone Borer Moth - Hodges#3072

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

Shortleaf Pinecone Borer Moth - Eucopina cocana

Shortleaf Pinecone Borer - Eucopina cocana

Hodfges #2772 - Labyrinth Moth? - Shortleaf Pinecone Borer Moth - Eucopina cocana

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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 Eucopina

Species cocana (Shortleaf Pinecone Borer Moth - Hodges#3072)

Hodges Number

3072

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucopina cocana (Kearfott, 1907) (1)

Eucosma cocana Kearfott, 1907

Eucosma rhodophaea Meyrick, 1912 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence #621059

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

Heinrich (1923) listed the wingspan 19 mm. (4)

Identification

Heinrich (1923) revised description in PDF. (4)

Larger than other cone-feeding Eucosma species in the East (5)

Range

Eastern United States.

Food

Cones of several pine species.

Print References

Gilligan, T.M., Wright, D.J. & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States. Ohio Biological Survey, 106.145. (5)

Gilligan, T.M., Wright, D.J., Munz, J., Yakobson, K. & M.P. Simmons, 2014. Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of Eucosma (Hübner) and related genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini). Systematic Entomology 39(1): 61. (1)

Heinrich, C., 1923. Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 123: 104. (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (6)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

William D. Kearfott (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of Eucosma (Hübner) and related genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini) Todd M. Gilligan, Donald J. Wright, Jacob Munz, Kendra Yakobson, Mark P. Simmons. 2014. Systematic Entomology, 39(1): 49–67.

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.	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.

5.	Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States, An Identification Guide Gilligan, Todd M., Donald J. Wright, and Loran D. Gibson. 2008. Ohio Biological Survey, P.O. Box 21370, Columbus, Ohio 43221-0370.

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Paul Dennehy on 31 January, 2012 - 9:16pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 29 November, 2017 - 1:17pm

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