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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Eucosma » clavana group (Eucosma clavana group) » Eucosma misturana - Hodges#2963 (Eucosma misturana)

Species Eucosma misturana - Hodges#2963

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · 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 Eucosma
No Taxon (clavana group)
Species misturana (Eucosma misturana - Hodges#2963)
Hodges Number
2963
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eucosma misturana (Heinrich, 1923) (1)
Thiodia misturana Heinrich 1923 (2)
Phaneta misturana
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet from Latin mistura meaning "mixture."
Numbers
There are more than 100 species of the genus in America north of Mexico. (3)
Size
Wright (2010) listed the forewing length. (4)
♂ 6.3–8.3 mm. (n = 18) * n = number of specimens studied.
♀ 5.7–7.5 mm. (n = 6)
Identification
Heinrich (1923) description in PDF. (2)
Range
The Wright (2010) collection map includes California(5) to Utah, Idaho and Washington; with a isolated population in southeastern Saskatchewan. (p. 136, fig. 102)(4)
Holotype ♂, Canada, Saskatchewan, Oxbow, collected by Fred K. Knab, 9 June 1907, deposited in U.S. National Museum. (4)
Season
The main flight period is February to July. (6)
Food
Brown et al., (1983) reported rearing on Artemisia tridentata Nutt. (Asteraceae) in southern Idaho.
Powell & Opler, (2009) reported the larval host as Artemisia californica Less. (Asteraceae) in coastal California. (3)
See Also
Phaneta indagatricana
Print References
Heinrich, C., 1923. Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 123: 54. (2)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 14.46, p. 133. (3)
Wright, D.J., 2010. Nine new species of Phaneta (Stephens) Tortricidae from western North America, with review of ten related species. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 64(3): 121; figs. 18, 19, 54, 79, 80, 102. (4)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (6)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
University of California, Berkeley
Carl Heinrich
Works Cited
1.Revised world catalogue of Eucopina, Eucosma, Pelochrista, and Phaneta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)
Todd M. Gilligan, Donald J. Wright. 2013. Zootaxa 3746(2): 301–337.
2.Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae
Carl Heinrich. 1923. United States National Museum Bulletin 123: 1-298.
3.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
4.Nine new species of Phaneta (Stephens) Tortricidae from western North America, with review of ten related species
Donald J. Wright. 2010. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 64 (3): 117-138.
5.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 August, 2013 - 3:48pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 9 December, 2017 - 8:08pm

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