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Tortricidae
51a0629.7n – 2833   Celypha chalybeana (Walsingham, 1879)

- gen. - © Glenn Fine
Distribution: Type localit (chalybeana): "Siskiyou Mountains, on the borders of Oregon and California".
Similar Species:
  • Olethreutes albiciliana (Fernald, 1882), possibly congeneric, is an eastern species.
  • Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy:
  • chalybeana Walsingham 1879 (Olethreutes); Type locality: "Siskiyou Mountains, on the borders of Oregon and California"
  • siderana of authors not Treitschke 1834 (Sericoris)
  • Taxonomic Notes: Celypha chalybeana (Walsingham, 1879) is a species from western US formerly listed in the genus Olethreutes as a subspecies of the Eurasian Celypha siderana (Treitschke, 1834) in Hodges et al. (1983) (Checklist) and Razowski (2003). It was treated as a full species by Powell & Opler (2009) with siderana as extralimital to NA, a treatment overlooked by Gilligan & Brown (in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023) but subsequently supported by Michael Sabourin (pers. comm., 11/8/2022) and Todd Gilligan (pers. comm., 3/2/2023). That treatment is followed here. Current generic placement follows Aarvik et al. (2017).
    References
    • Aarvik, L., B.Å. Bengtsson, H. Elven, P. Ivinskis, U. Jürivete, O. Karsholt, M. Mutanen, N. Savenkov, 2017. Nordic-Baltic Checklist of Lepidoptera. Norwegian Journal of Entomology, Supplement 3: 1-236.
    • Barcode of Life (BOLD) (Celypha siderana) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.
    • Barcode of Life (BOLD) (Phiaris siderana) - 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:AAJ2026 - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification.
    • Gilligan, T.M., J.W. Brown, J, Baixeras, 2020. Immigrant Tortricidae: Holarctic versus Introduced Species in North America. Insects, 11(9), 594: 1-59.
    • Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America, Pl. 14.30m; p. 131. Book Review and ordering
    • Razowski, J., 2003. Olethreutinae. Tortricidae of Europe, 2: 1-301 (out of print).
    • Species Page at BugGuide.Net
    • Treitschke, F., 1835. Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, 10: 81.
    • Walsingham, L.T.d.G., 1879. North-American Torticidae. Illustrations of typical specimens Lepidopters: Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum, 4: 34; pl. 68, fig. 4.
    Celypha chalybeana
    - gen. - © Glenn Fine
    Celypha chalybeana
    - gen. - © Glenn Fine
    Celypha chalybeana
    - gen. - © Glenn Fine
    Celypha chalybeana
    CalPhotos – © Jerry Powell
    Celypha chalybeana
    17mm – © U. S. National Museum
    Celypha chalybeana
    16mm – © U. S. National Museum

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