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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Grapholitini » Cydia » Cydia populana - Hodges#3463 (Cydia populana)

Species Cydia populana - Hodges#3463

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

Tortricidae: Cydia populana - Cydia populana

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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 Grapholitini

Genus Cydia

Species populana (Cydia populana - Hodges#3463)

Hodges Number

3463

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cydia populana (Busck, 1916)

Laspeyresia populana Busck, 1916 (1)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for the host plant (Populus).

Numbers

The genus Cydia includes more than 47 species in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Busck (1916) listed the wingspan as 13-14 mm. (1)

Identification

Determined by Michael Sabourin.

Range

California to Colorado, northward to British Columbia.

Holotype ♀ from Missoula, Montana (Mr. J. Brunner). (3)

Season

Powell & Opler (2009) reported July to September. (4)

Food

Populus (aspen). (4)

See Also

Cydia flexiloqua is very similar except thorax is whitish gray.

Print References

Busck, A., 1916. Descriptions of new North-American Microlepidoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 18: 151. (1)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 16, fig.53; p.142. (4)

Internet References

University of California, Berkeley

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

August Busck

Works Cited

1.	Descriptions of new North American Microlepidoptera August Busck. 1916. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 18: 147-154.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

4.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 August, 2013 - 1:17pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 9 April, 2023 - 7:36pm

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