Named in honor of entomologist James Halliday McDunnough (1877-1962), who "first described and figured the genitalia of this species, and the present author takes pleasure in naming it for the late investigator of the Canadian Acleris species." (1)
Numbers
There are 65 species of the genus Acleris in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)
Size
Obraztsov (1963) listed the forewing length as 8-9 mm. (1)
Obraztsov, 1963. Some North American moths of the genus Acleris (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 114: 214; plate 1, fig. 1. (1)