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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Sonia » Sonia vovana - Hodges#3220 (Sonia vovana)

Species Sonia vovana - Hodges#3220

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

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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 Sonia

Species vovana (Sonia vovana - Hodges#3220)

Hodges Number

3220

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sonia vovana (Kearfott, 1907)

Eucosma vovana Kearfott, 1907 (1)

Hendecaneura fraternana Busck, 1907 (2)

Eucosma typicodes Meyrick, 1912 (3)

Sonia typicodes (Meyrick, 1912)

Phylogenetic sequence #621119

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. (4), (3)

Size

Forewing length 7.5-12 mm. (5)

Identification

Kearfott (1907) original description is available in Print References. (1)

Busck (1907) description as Hendecaneura fraternana is available online in the Print References. (2)

ID confirmed by Chuck Harp.

Range

California to Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. (6), (7), (8)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Holotype collected USA, Utah, Stockton (Tom Spalding).

Other specimens examined: Bear Creek, Morrison, CO (E.J. Oslar); Yuma County, AZ (J.B. Smith, March 26th); Glenwood Springs, CO (Dr. Barnes, Aug,. 24th); Amarillo, TX (Cockerell, Aug,. 30th).

Season

Most records of adults are from June through October. (5), (8)

Food

Powell & Opler (2006) reared them from the roots of: (9), (10)

Gutierrezia Lag. (snakeweed)

Isocoma Nutt. (goldenbush)

Life Cycle

Larvae feed in the roots of the hostplant. (5)

See Also

Compare on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Busck, A. 1907. New genera and species of American microlepidoptera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 15: 134. (2)

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States. Ohio Biological Survey. p. 132.203.(9)

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

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl. 15, figs. 40-41; p. 136.(5)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (8)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (11)

William D. Kearfott

Works Cited

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

2.	New genera and species of American Microlepidoptera August Busck. 1907. Journal of The New York Entomological Society 15: 134--140.

3.	On some impossible specific names in micro-lepidoptera. Edward Meyrick. 1912. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 48: 32-36.

4.	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.

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

6.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

7.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

8.	North American Moth Photographers Group

9.	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.

10.	Larval host plant records of Asteraceae root-feeding Eucosmini in California and adjacent states (Tortricidae) J. A. Powell, P. A. Opler . 2006. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 60(4): 189-193.

11.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 February, 2013 - 10:20am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 December, 2017 - 6:38pm

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