Species Eucosma tarandana - Hodges#2956

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Phaneta tarandana - Hodges #2956 - Eucosma tarandana

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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 (tarandana group)

Species tarandana (Eucosma tarandana - Hodges#2956)

Hodges Number

2956

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucosma tarandana (Möschler, 1874) (1)

Grapholitha tarandana Möschler, 1874

Phaneta tarandana

Semasia tarandana

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet perhaps a reference to reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).

Size

Wingspan 21-27 mm. (2)

Range

Records from British Columbia and Alberta, south through the Rockies, including Montana, Colorado and northeastern Arizona. In the east known only from Labrador, Canada. (3), (4)

Heinrich (1923) examined three specimens, two from Aweme, Manitoba (Criddle, 2 Aug. 1915) and the likely type specimen from Labrador in the Fernald collection, confirming that the Labrador moth agrees with the moths from the west. (2)

Print References

Möschler, H.B., 1874. Beitrag zum Schmetterlings-Fauna von Labrador. Entomologische Zeitung 35(4-6): 165.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Heinrich Benno Möschler

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Phaneta tarandana - Hodges #2956

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 27 August, 2013 - 3:24pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 12 December, 2017 - 11:57am

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