''Eucosma apacheana''
''Eucosma'' is a very large genus of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s belonging to the family
Tortricidae. Some taxonomies place a number of species in the genus ''Eucopina'' (e. g.: ''E. bobana, E. cocana, E. tocullionana'').
Moth Photographers Group
/ref> The genus has a Holarctic
The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical region ...
and Indomalayan distribution (some Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
species originally described in this genus have since been reassigned to other gener
). Even in well-studied Europe and North America, new species are still regularly discovered
Nomina Insecta Nearctica
lists 150 Nearctic
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America t ...
species an
Fauna Europaea
lists 53 European species). There are at least 670 described species in ''Eucosma'' worldwide.[
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These are small moths in a wide variety of colours, sometimes plain, sometimes with bold patterning.
See also
* List of ''Eucosma'' species
References
External links
Tortricidae.com
*
Eucosmini
Tortricidae genera
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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