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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fruitworm Moths (Carposinoidea) » Fruitworm Moths (Carposinidae) » Bondia » Bondia comonana - Hodges#2318 (Bondia comonana)

Species Bondia comonana - Hodges#2318

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Unknown moth from Santa Cruz Island, California - Bondia comonana

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Carposinoidea (Fruitworm Moths)

Family Carposinidae (Fruitworm Moths)

Genus Bondia

Species comonana (Bondia comonana - Hodges#2318)

Hodges Number

2318

Other Common Names

Prune limb borer (1)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Bondia comonana (Kearfott, 1907)

Carposina comonana Kearfott, 1907 (2)

Synonym

Carposina euryleuca Meyrick, 1912

Phylogenetic sequence #480010

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet is part of a series of Kearfott names originating from various alphabetical rhyming schemes with no meaning, often derided by subsequent authors as "nonsense names." See Brown (2001) for a humorous take on this "barbaric" practice. (3), (4)

Size

Davis (1969) listed the wingspan. (5)

Males 14-19 mm.

Females 13-18 mm.

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 6.5-8.5 mm, males larger than females. (1)

Identification

Range

Powell & Opler (2009) reported the range to include Washington to Colorado, Arizona and California(6), (7); across southern Canada(8) to Maine. (1)

Lectotype ♂ from San Francisco, California, designated by Klotts (1942) in American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). (5)

Scattered records in the eastern United States south to at least Maryland.

Western Texas record included on the Moth Photographers Group map.

Food

The larvae bore into limbs of Prunus species (peach, prune, cherry). (5)

Considered a pest of young almond orchards.

HOSTS database listed Quercus (oak) and many Prunus species. (9)

Remarks

There are many online resources with information on the pest status.

Print References

Davis, D.R., 1969. A revision of the American moths of the family Carposinidae (Lepidoptera: Carposinoidea). United States National Museum Bulletin 289, p. 43; figs. 1-2, 16, 36, 44-48, 64, 83, 101, 117; Map 6. (5)

Kearfott, W.D., 1907. New North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 33(1), p. 87. (2)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 21, figs. 18-19; p. 166. (1)

Internet References

University of California, Berkeley

Moth Photographers Group (10)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (11)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (12)

Moths of Maryland

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

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

3.	Presidential address, 2000: Nomenclatural nonsense - flying in the face of a farcical code. John W. Brown. 2001. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55(1): 1-7.

4.	On some impossible specific names in micro-lepidoptera. Edward Meyrick. 1912. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 48: 32-36.

5.	A revision of the American moths of the family Carposinidae (Lepidoptera: Carposinoidea) Donald R. Davis. 1969. United States National Museum Bulletin, 289.

6.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

7.	Lepidoptera (Butterfly and Moth) Inventory John Muir National Historic Site – 2003-2006 Susan O’Neil, Paul G. Johnson. 2008. U.S. Department of the Interior.

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.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

10.	North American Moth Photographers Group

11.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

12.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 2 February, 2014 - 8:35pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 5 November, 2017 - 11:32am

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