Google
WWW MPG website only

Digital Guide to Moth Identification

Tortricidae
51a0599 – 2832   Olethreutes albiciliana (Fernald, 1882)

Reared - © Charley Eiseman
Distribution: Lectotype: Orono, Penobscot Co., ME.
Description/
Field Marks:
Olethreutes albiciliana is most similar to O. auricapitana but with fringe yellowish-white from apex to mid-termen. Labial palpi usually less orange and a patch of brown scaling visible dorsally and with two pairs of yellowish costal antemedial striae more well defined as in P. agilana. Silver scales may form elongated spots but not well developed lines.
Similar Species:
  • Phiaris siderana (Treitschke, 1835), possibly congeneric, is a western species.
  • Olethreutes auricapitana.
  • Olethreutes n. sp. nr. auricapitana.
  • Pristerognatha agilana.
  • Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy: Sericoris albiciliana Fernald, 1882
References
  • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: Some specimens shown may not be sequenced. DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness not proof of identification.
  • Fernald, C.H., 1882. Descriptions of new species of Tortricidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 10: 70.
  • Gilligan, Wright & Gibson, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States: p. 75.75. (out of print)
  • Species Page at BugGuide.Net
  • Species Page at Mass Moths
Olethreutes albiciliana
© Jason Dombroskie
Olethreutes albiciliana
© Tom Murray
Olethreutes albiciliana
© David Kaposi
Olethreutes albiciliana
Reared - © Charley Eiseman
Olethreutes albiciliana
13mm – © Jim Vargo
Olethreutes albiciliana
- lectotype - LG – © T. M. Gilligan (USNM)
Olethreutes albiciliana
- LG – © T. M. Gilligan
Olethreutes albiciliana
12mm – © U. S. National Museum

Moth Photographers Group  at the  Mississippi Entomological Museum  at the  Mississippi State University

Send suggestions, or submit photographs to Webmaster — Moth Photographers Group

Database design and scripting support provided by Mike Boone