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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Eucosmini » Retinia » Retinia burkeana - Hodges#2900 (Retinia burkeana)

Species Retinia burkeana - Hodges#2900

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Food · 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 Retinia

Species burkeana (Retinia burkeana - Hodges#2900)

Hodges Number

2900

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Retinia burkeana (Kearfott, 1907)

Evetria burkeana Kearfott, 1907 (1)

Petrova burkeana

Phylogenetic sequence #620730

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet in honor of Dr. Harry E. Burke (1878-1963) of the Bureau of Forestry who reared the specimens.

Size

Wingspan 26-28 mm. (1), (2)

Food

Larval hosts are Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce) and Picea engelmannii (Engelmann spruce). (1), (2)

Types: Hoquiam, WA (Mr. Burke, from larvae on Picea sitchensis).

Print References

Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 4. (1)

Internet References

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Tortricidae.com

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

William D. Kearfott

Works Cited

1.	New North American Tortricidae. William Dunham Kearfott. 1907. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1): 1-97.

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.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 18 August, 2013 - 11:53pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 December, 2017 - 2:20pm

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