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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 » refusana group (Eucosma refusana group) » Eucosma autumnana - Hodges#2925 (Eucosma autumnana)

Species Eucosma autumnana - Hodges#2925

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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 (refusana group)

Species autumnana (Eucosma autumnana - Hodges#2925)

Hodges Number

2925

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucosma autumnana (McDunnough, 1942) (1)

Phaneta autumnana

Thiodia autumnana McDunnough, 1942

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet means "autumn" for the flight period.

Identification

Range

Records from Ohio to Maryland, north to Maine and Ontario. (2)

Season

Adults fly at the end of August through the fall. (3)

Print References

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States, p. 94.110. (4)

McDunnough, 1942. Tortricid notes and descriptions. The Canadian Entomologist. 74: 66

Miller, W.E., 1971. Identity of Phaneta refusana Walker with description of a new species (Tortricidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 25(4): 287. (5)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Tortricidae.com

Moths of Maryland

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

James Halliday McDunnough (Wikipedia)

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Phaneta verna

4.	Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States, An Identification Guide Gilligan, Todd M., Donald J. Wright, and Loran D. Gibson. 2008. Ohio Biological Survey, P.O. Box 21370, Columbus, Ohio 43221-0370.

5.	Identity of Phaneta refusana (Walker) with description of a new species (Tortricidae) W. E. Miller. 1971. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 25(4): 287.

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 August, 2013 - 7:29pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Nick Block, Randy Hardy
Last updated 7 December, 2017 - 6:48pm

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