Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

See Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2023

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29

Photos of insects and people from the 2015 gathering in Wisconsin, July 10-12


Previous events


TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Synalocha gutierreziae - Hodges#3746.1

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 Sparganothini
Genus Synalocha
Species gutierreziae (Synalocha gutierreziae - Hodges#3746.1)
Hodges Number
3746.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Synalocha gutierreziae Powell, 1985 (1)
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet for the host plant genus. (1)
Range
Known from Texas and New Mexico. (1)
Holotype male: Texas, 5 miles north of Monahans, Ward Co., 4 July 1979 (reared by J.K. Wangberg). (1)
Food
Larvae feed in silken shelters on broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae) and thredleaf snakeweed (Gutierrezia microcephala). (2), (1)
Print References
Powell, J.A., 1985. Discovery of two new species and genera of shaggy tortricids related to Synnoma and Niasoma (Tortricidiae: Sparganothini). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 24(1): 63. (1)