Moth Photographers Group – Epinotia columbia

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Tortricidae

51a1237 – 3324 Epinotia columbia (Kearfott, 1904)

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Distribution:	Canada: BC to QC (note: records from eastern BC east to QC may refer to albidorsana); USA: WA south to southern CA.
Similar Species:	Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy:	columbia (Kearfott, 1904) (Proteopteryx) Type locality: Wellington, BC. albidorsana (Kearfott, 1904) (Proteopteryx) Type locality: Kaslo, BC. crenana of authors; (not Hübner, [1817]) (Tortrix) misappl. mediostriana (Kearfott, 1904) (Proteopteryx) Type locality: Wellington, BC.
Taxonomic Notes:	Epinotia columbia (Kearfott, 1904) is elevated from synonymy of Epinotia crenana [3324] (extralimital) in R. L. Brown's unpublished Master’s thesis with new status formalized in Brown (2005). This species is represented at BOLD by two BINs, BOLD:AAF0407, likely "true" crenana, and BOLD:AAE1754, likely an undescribed cryptic species (Gilligan et al. 2020); the latter possibly refers to albidorsana Kearfott, originally described as a variety of columbia (M. Sabourin, pers. comm., 2023). Compare lectotypes of in references.

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.
Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN: BOLD:AAE1754 (albidorsana) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification.
Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN: BOLD:AAF0407 (columbia) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification.
Brown, J.W., 2005. Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). World Catalogue of Insects, 5: 1-741.
Gilligan, T.M., J.W. Brown, J, Baixeras, 2020. Immigrant Tortricidae: Holarctic versus Introduced Species in North America. Insects, 11(9), 594: 1-59.
Kearfott, W.D., 1904. New tortricids from Kaslo, B. C., and the northwest. . The Canadian Entomologist, 36: 112 (columbia); 113 (var. albidorsana); 114 (var. mediostriana).
Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America, Pl. 16.11f, 16.12f; p. 138. Book Review and ordering
Species Page at BugGuide.Net
Species Page at the American Museum of Natural History (lectotype of albidorsana)
Species Page at the American Museum of Natural History (lectotype of columbia)
Species Page at the American Museum of Natural History (lectotype of mediostriana)