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Species Aethes ringsi - Rings' Aethes Moth - Hodges#3780

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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 Cochylini

Genus Aethes

Species ringsi (Rings' Aethes Moth - Hodges#3780)

Hodges Number

3780

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Aethes ringsi (Metzler, 1999) (1)

Cochylis ringsi Metzler, 2000 (2), (3)

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of Roy W. Rings, a "very close friend, mentor and colleague." (2)

Size

Forewing length: (2)

♂ 4.5 - 7.3 mm.

♀ 5 - 5.7 mm.

Identification

Original description is online in PDF. (2)

Range

Iowa and Texas to Maryland and Florida(4). (5), (6)

Peterson Field Guide lists the range as southeastern Canada and northeastern United States. (7)

Type locality: USA: Indiana, Newton Co., 41°6.42'N, 87 °26.25'W, Conrad Savanna (Eric H. Metzler). (8)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Most records are from April to September. (5)

Food

Larval host is unknown. (6), (7)

Print References

Metzler, E.H. 2000. Two new species of Cochylini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from the eastern United States. Great Lakes Entomologist. 32(3): 191. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)

Smithsonian collection

Eric H. Metzler

Works Cited

1.	New genera, new species, and new combinations in new world Cochylina (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae) Brown, J.W. 2019. Zootaxa, 4671 (2): 195–222.

2.	The Great Lakes Entomologist. 32(3)

3.	An updated check list of the Cochylina (Tortricidae, Tortricinae, Euliini) of North America north of Mexico including... Metzler, E.H. & Brown, J.W. 2014. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 68(4): 274–282.

4.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

7.	Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.

8.	World Catalogue of Insects, Vol. 5: Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) John Wesley Brown, Joaquin Baixeras. 2005. Apollo Books.

9.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 March, 2013 - 12:52pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Tony-2, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 1 April, 2025 - 8:48pm

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