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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Olethreutinae » Olethreutini » Olethreutes » Olethreutes trinitana - Hodges#2849 (Olethreutes trinitana)

Species Olethreutes trinitana - Hodges#2849

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · 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 Olethreutini

Genus Olethreutes

Species trinitana (Olethreutes trinitana - Hodges#2849)

Hodges Number

2849

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Olethreutes trinitana (McDunnough, 1931)

Argyroploce trinitana McDunnough, 1931

Numbers

There are more than 84 species of the genus Olethreutes in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)

Range

Smith et al. (2010) reported eastern Quebec to Prince Edwards Island and Nova Scotia. (3)

Type locality: Canada, Ontario, Trenton. Holotype: CNC.

Food

Ferguson (1975) listed Rubus (blackberry) and Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) K.R. Robertson & Phipps (black chokeberry). (4)

Print References

Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States. Ohio Biological Survey. p.77.81. (5)

McDunnough, J.H., 1931 A new Argyroploce species (Eucosmidae, Lepid.). The Canadian Entomologist 63(7): 151.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Tortricidae.com

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)

James Halliday McDunnough (1877-1962)

Works Cited

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

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	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.

4.	Host records for Lepidoptera reared in Eastern North America D. C. Ferguson. 1975. United States Department of Agriculture 1521: 1-45.

5.	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.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 November, 2013 - 12:18pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Blocky
Last updated 24 June, 2021 - 5:22pm

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