Amphiphala, a New Genus and Its Three New Species from Eastern North America (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Cochylina)

Authors

Michael A. Roberts, Steuben, Maine, United StatesFollow
Michael Sabourin, McGuire CenterFollow
John W. Brown, United States National Museum of Natural HistoryFollow

ORCID IDs

Roberts https://orcid.org/ 0009-0005-3249-3633

Sabourin https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4360-7075

Brown https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5800-5512

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

8-19-2024

Citation

Insecta Mundi (August 19, 2024) 1070

Review editor: Jose Martinez

ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0B3554C6-EA09-4D2D-9103-B054870B23D2

Comments

Copyright 2024, the authors. Open access

License: CC BY-NC 3.0

Abstract

Amphiphala Roberts and Sabourin, new genus (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), is proposed for three new species: A. liatriana Roberts and Sabourin, new species; A. landryana Brown, new species; and A. carolana Sabourin, new species. The genus is recorded from the eastern part of North America from Ontario, Canada south to South Carolina, and west to Manitoba and Mississippi. Owing to its superficial similarity to the banded sunflower moth, Cochylichroa hospes (Walsingham, 1884), Amphiphala remained hidden in North American Lepidoptera collections. Amphiphala liatriana has been reared from northern blazing star, Liatris scariosa (L.) Willd. (Asteraceae), in Maine.