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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Cochylini » Aethes » Rings' Aethes Moth - Hodges#3780 (Aethes ringsi)

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

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Tortricid Moth - Aethes ringsi ringsi - Aethes ringsi ringsi - Aethes ringsi
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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)
See Also
Most often confused with the two species below. (2)
Aethes argentilimitana

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Aethes patricia
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
Last updated 1 October, 2019 - 5:06am

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