Cossinae
Creators: name: Pohl, Greg
name: Anweiler, Gary
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Kondla, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae

description: Cossinae 391 R <i>Acossus centerensis</i> (Lintner, 1877) L Jun – E Aug m B g Poplar Carpenterworm T: Barnes and McDunnough (1911) L: Bowman (1951), Pohl et al. (2004b) C: CNC, NFRC, OLDS, PMAE, UASM 392 R <i>Acossus populi</i> (Walker, 1856) L Jun – E Aug M B g Aspen Carpenterworm T: Barnes and McDunnough (1911) L: Barnes and McDunnough (1911), Bowman (1951), Ives and Wong (1988), Pohl et al. (2004b) C: CNC, NFRC, OLDS, PMAE, UASM 393 R <i>Prionoxystus robiniae</i> (Peck, 1818) L Jun – M Jul – B G Carpenterworm T: Barnes and McDunnough (1911) L: Bowman (1951), Pohl et al. (2004b) C: CNC, NFRC, OLDS, PMAE, UASM <b>Choreutoidea</b> <i>36. Choreutidae – metalmark moths</i> Small (10–15 mm wingspan) moths with a scaled proboscis and broad wings, often marked with patches of metallic scales. The adults are diurnal; they run and fly with rapid, jerky movements, and hold the wings elevated above the body when at rest. Larvae of most species are leaftiers, usually of monocots. Some larvae live within stems but are not true borers. Until recently, the family Choreutidae was associated with the Glyphipterigidae or the Sesiidae, but it is now placed in its own superfamily. Approximately 400 species of choreutids are known worldwide. The family is most diverse in tropical regions. Thirtytwo species are known from North America, and nine of these are reported in AB. The family is in need of revision in North America. Heppner (1982, 1991a, 1991b) has revised some tropical groups and has put new manuscript names on specimens in the CNC, but the latter remain unpublished. Currently, specimens can only be identified by comparison with authoritatively determined material, although Dombroskie (2003) is helpful for several AB species.
description: Published as part of <i>Pohl, Greg, Anweiler, Gary, Schmidt, Christian &amp; Kondla, Norbert, 2010, An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada, pp. 1-549 in ZooKeys 38 (38)</i> on pages 93-94, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383, http://zenodo.org/record/576629
description: {"references": ["Barnes W, McDunnough JH (1911) Revision of the Cossidae of North America. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America 1: 1 - 35.", "Bowman K (1951) An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Zoology 29: 121 - 165.", "Pohl GR, Langor DW, Landry J-F, Spence JR (2004 b) Lepidoptera of the Boreal Mixedwood Forest near Lac La Biche, Alberta, including new provincial records. Canadian Field-Naturalist 118: 530 - 549.", "Ives WGH, Wong HR (1988) Tree and shrub insects of the Prairie provinces. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, AB, Information Report NOR-X- 292, 327 pp.", "Heppner JB (1982) Millieriinae, a new subfamily of Choreutidae, with new taxa from Chile and the United States (Lepidoptera: Sesioidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 370: 1 - 27.", "Heppner JB (1991 a) Hemerophila metalmark moths of Florida (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae). Tropical Lepidoptera 2: 79 - 84.", "Heppner JB (1991 b) Tortyra metalmark moths of Florida (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae). Tropical Lepidoptera 2: 73 - 78.", "Dombroskie JJ (2003) Th e metalmark moths (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae) of Ontario. Ontario Lepidoptera 2002: 59 - 70."]}