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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

Eucosma misturana Marin Headlands - Eucosma misturana

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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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