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Epinotia canthonias

Description

243. Epinotia canthonias (Meyrick, 1920)

Acroclita canthonias Meyrick, 1920; Exotic Microlepid. 2: 343.

TL: India, Pusa, Bengal [now in Bihar].

Distribution: India (Bihar, Himachal Pradesh); Sri Lanka; Thailand (Pinkaew 2006; Koçak & Kemal 2012).

Host: Larvae feed on the flowers, leaves, and shoots of Loranthus (Loranthaceae) and Ficus racemosa (Moraceae) (Meyrick 1928; Fletcher 1932).

Illustrations: Adult and genitalia (Clarke 1958: 268, Rose & Pooni 2005: 1758).

Notes

Published as part of Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, Catalogue of Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea) of India, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 4757 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4757.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3756053

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Tortricidae
Genus
Epinotia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Meyrick
Species
canthonias
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Epinotia canthonias (Meyrick, 1920) sec. Pathania, Das & Chandra, 2020

References

  • Meyrick, E. (1920) A sketch of our present knowledge of Indian Microlepidoptera. Report of the Third Entomological Meeting, Pusa, 3, 999 - 1008.
  • Pinkaew, N. (2006) Taxonomy of Olethreutinae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) of Thong Pha Phum National Park, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. Ph. D. thesis, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, 578 pp.
  • Kocak, A. O. & Kemal, M. (2012) Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara News, 79, 1 - 57.
  • Fletcher, T. B. (1932) Life-Histories of Indian Microlepidoptera (Second Series). Alucitidae (Pterophoriadae), Tortricina and Gelechiadae. The Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, India. Science Monogram 2. Government of India Central Publication Branch, Calcutta, 58 pp.
  • Clarke, J. F. G. (1958) Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Mus. (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 3. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 600 pp.
  • Pooni, H. S. & Rose, H. S. (2005) Anathamna neospermatophaga sp. nov. (Enarmoniini: Olethreutinae: Tortricidae) from western Himalaya, India. Entomon, 30, 237 - 241.