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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Anacampsinae » Anacampsini » Anacampsis » Dark-headed Aspen leafroller moth - Hodges#2237 (Anacampsis innocuella)

Species Anacampsis innocuella - Dark-headed Aspen leafroller moth - Hodges#2237

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Dark-headed Aspen Leafroller - Anacampsis innocuella

grey and black moth - Anacampsis innocuella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Gelechioidea (Twirler Moths and kin)

Family Gelechiidae (Twirler Moths)

Subfamily Anacampsinae

Tribe Anacampsini

Genus Anacampsis

Species innocuella (Dark-headed Aspen leafroller moth - Hodges#2237)

Hodges Number

2237

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anacampsis innocuella (Zeller, 1873) (1), (2)

Gelechia (Tachyptilia) innocuella Zeller, 1873 (3)

Phylogenetic sequence #420479.00

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "harmless."

Numbers

There are more than 22 species of the genus Anacampsis in America north of Mexico. (4), (5)

Size

Baker (1972) listed a wingspan of 18-22 mm. (6)

Identification

Genitalia:

Larva - see Dyar (1903) and Forbes (1923) descriptions. (7), (1)

Range

Anacampsis innocuella is found throughout most of eastern North America.

Smith et al. (2010) listed eastern Quebec to Nova Scotia. (8) Busck (1903) adds Wyoming and Colorado. (2)

Zeller specimen: female, Texas (Boll). (3)

Season

The flight period appears to be May to October. (5)

Food

Larval hosts include quaking aspen, bigtooth aspen, white poplar, black polar, balsam poplar, Carolina poplar, willow and shoeblackplant (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) in Puerto Rico. (5)

Life Cycle

Larvae feed and leaf roll about the time aspen leaves begin to appear. Prior to pupation, the larva severs the petiole of the rolled leaf and drops to the ground with it. Rolls of 2 or more leaves remain on the tree.(6)

Overwinter as egg on twigs of the host.(6)

1.leaf shelter 2.leaf shelter with pupa 3.adult

Print References

Barron, J.R., 1970. A new species of Copidosoma (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) parasitizing larvae of Anacampsis innocuella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 102(10): pp 1337-1339. abstract and access

Miller, W.E. 1955. Biology of Anacampsis innocuella (Zeller), a leaf roller on aspen. Journal of Economic Entomology. 48(5): 622-623.

Zeller, P.C., 1873. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, besonders der Microlepidopteren. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 23: 249. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (10)

Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808-1883)

Works Cited

1.	The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States William T.M. Forbes. 1923. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Memoir 68.

2.	A revision of the American moths of the family Gelechiidae, with descriptions of new species August Busck. 1903. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25: 767-938.

3.	Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, besonders der Microlepidopteren, vol. 2. Philipp Christoph Zeller. 1873. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 23: 201-334.

4.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

7.	Descriptions of the larvae of some moths from Colorado Harrison G. Dyar. 1903. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 25: 369-412.

8.	Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.

9.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

10.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 22 November, 2013 - 12:00am
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy, Marci Hess, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 4 March, 2024 - 2:20pm

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