Species Epinotia xandana - Hodges#3295

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Eucosma xandana - Epinotia xandana - male

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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 Epinotia

Species xandana (Epinotia xandana - Hodges#3295)

Hodges Number

3295

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Epinotia xandana (Kearfott, 1907)

Eucosma xandana Kearfott, 1907 (1)

Eucosma atacta Meyrick, 1912 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence #621207

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 12-17.5 mm. (1)

Range

Records from Maine to South Carolina, west to Illinois. (4)

Type locality: Cincinnati, Ohio (Miss Annette Braun, March 6th to 26th). (1)

Print References

Kearfott, W.D. 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 24. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

William D. Kearfott (Wikipedia)

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Jason J. Dombroskie on 12 February, 2013 - 7:36pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 17 December, 2017 - 5:22pm

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