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TAXONOMIC REVIEW OF THE RHYACIONIA FRUSTRANA GROUP OF PINE-TIP MOTHS, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES (OLETHREUTIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

William E. Miller
William E. Miller
Affiliation:
North Central Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Abstract

The Rhyacionia frustrana group of pine-tip moths consists of at least three species: true R. frustrana (Comstock), which occurs from Central America and northern Florida north to Missouri and Massachusetts; R. sonia n. sp., present from southern Maine west to southern Manitoba; and R. bushnelli Busck, which occurs from New Mexico north to Nebraska and eastern Montana. Adults of all three species are superficially identical. A lectotype is designated to establish the identity of R. frustrana, and R. sonia is described as new to science on the basis of markedly differing genitalia. R. bushnelli, long regarded as a domestic introduction of R. frustrana, seems more likely a distinct species endemic to the western plains because of its differing overwintering habit and size.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 99 , Issue 6 , June 1967 , pp. 590 - 596
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1967

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