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Choreutidae 47a0045 – 2648   Tebenna onustana (Walker, 1864)

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Distribution: New England and the Maritime Provinces to MI, OH and PA; Pacific Northwest; Rockies. The population from western NA may represent a separate species or subspecies. There are no records from the Great Plains and the sole sequenced western specimens is well separated by DNA barcode. Description/ Field Marks: A member of the onustana species-group. See Heppner (2023), Lepid. Novae, 15(3-4): 154; fig. 64, 66, 69-70, 74-76, F13, M13. Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: onustana (Walker, 1864) (Simaethis) - MONA 1983: 2648; TL: Nova Scotia. ohiensis (Zeller, 1876) (Choreutis); TL: Ohio. ohioensis; (Kearfott, 1902) (Choreutis) missp.

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

Barcode of Life (BOLD) Heppner, J.B., 2023. Nearctic Metalmark Moths, 7. Genus Tebenna and new genus Pseudotebenna (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae: Choreutinae). Lepidoptera Novae, 15(3-4): 121-172. Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at Mass Moths Walker, F., 1864. Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 30: 996. Zeller, P.C., 1875. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, besonders der Microlepidopteren. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 25: 320 (ohiensis, syn.)

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