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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Archipini » Argyrotaenia » Argyrotaenia niscana - Hodges#3610 (Argyrotaenia niscana)

Species Argyrotaenia niscana - Hodges#3610

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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 Archipini
Genus Argyrotaenia
Species niscana (Argyrotaenia niscana - Hodges#3610)
Hodges Number
3610
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Argyrotaenia niscana (Kearfott, 1907)
Eulia niscana Kearfott, 1907 (1)
Eulia camerata Meyrick, 1912 (2)
Phylogenetic sequence #620273
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
Wingspan 15-17 mm. (1)
Identification
Adult - see original description in Print References. (1)
Specimen determined by DNA analysis (BOLD). (4)
Range
California. (5), (1)
Type location: Carmel, California.
Print References
Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 94. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (5)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
William D. Kearfott (1864-1917)
Works Cited
1.New North American Tortricidae.
William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.
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.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Jason J. Dombroskie on 25 November, 2012 - 9:07pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 19 January, 2018 - 1:51pm

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