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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 » Western Pine Shoot Borer Moth - Hodges#3065 (Eucopina sonomana)

Species Eucopina sonomana - Western Pine Shoot Borer Moth - Hodges#3065

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Western Pine Shoot Borer Moth - Eucopina sonomana

Tortricidae: Eucopina sonomana - Eucopina sonomana

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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 sonomana (Western Pine Shoot Borer Moth - Hodges#3065)

Hodges Number

3065

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucopina sonomana (Kearfott, 1907) (1)

Eucosma sonomana Kearfott, 1907 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence #621052

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for Sonoma County, California, where some of the first specimens were collected. (2)

Size

Forewing length 8-11 mm. (3), (4)

Identification

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

Range

California to Colorado and north to British Columbia.

Moth Photographers Group map

Habitat

Eucopina sonomana is found in close association with the host trees listed below.

Season

Adults fly from early January to May along coastal California and from May to June further inland. (3)

Food

Larval hosts. (3), (5)

Pinus muricata D. Don (Bishop pine).

P. pondersosa Lawson & C. Lawson (Ponderosa pine).

P. contorta Douglas ex Loudon (Lodgepole pine).

Picea engelmanni Parry ex Engelm. (Engelmann spruce).

Pinus jeffreyi Balf. (Jeffrey pine).

Life Cycle

The larva bore into the pith of the terminal branches. (4)

There are many publications online with detailed life cycle notes.

Remarks

Considered a serious forest pest. There are many publications online with information about control of the species.

See Also

Eucosma ponderosa

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

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. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 123: 103. (4)

Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 27. (2)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 15, fig. 8; p. 133. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (6)

University of California, Berkeley

Invasive.org

Tortricidae.com

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

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

3.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

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.	Pheromone-based disruption of Eucosma sonomana and Rhyacionia zozana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) . Nancy E. Gillette, John D. Stein, Donald R. Owen, Jeffrey N. Webster, and Sylvia R. Mori. 2006. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 361–368.

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 March, 2012 - 11:36pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 10 November, 2017 - 6:52pm

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