An updated check list of the Cochylina (Tortricidae, Tortricinae, Euliini) of North America north of Mexico including Greenland, with comments on classification and identification

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The authors present an updated list of the members of the subtribe Cochylina (Tortricidae) in North America north of Mexico. They summarize the proposed changes in the classification since the end of 1978. They also propose revised status for two genera, Rolandylis Gibeaux, 1985 and Thyraylia Walsingham, 1897. Also proposed are 11 revised combinations: Saphenista parvimaculana (Walsingham, 1879), unplaced Cochylina omphacitis (Meyrick, 1912) [Cochylis], unplaced Cochylina voxcana (Kearfott, 1907) [Phalonia], Thyraylia bana (Kearfott, 1907), Thyraylia rhodites (Meyrick, 1912), Thyraylia bunteana (Robinson, 1869), Thyraylia discana (Kearfott, 1907), Thyraylia cricota (Meyrick, 1912), Thyraylia gunniana (Busck, 1907), Thyraylia hollandana (Kearfott, 1907), and Thyraylia nana (Haworth, [1811]). Four revised combinations are proposed: Rolandylis fusca Pogue, 2001, Rolandylis maiana (Kearfott, 1907), Rolandylis catalonica Gibeaux, 1985, Rolandylis virilia Pogue, 2001; and three new synonymies: Aethes ziscana Kearfott with A. bomonana (Kearfott), Henricus edwarsiana (Walsingham) with H. contrastana (Kearfott), and Phtheochroa pecosana (Kearfott, 1907) with P. cartwrightana (Kearfott, 1907). The described fauna includes 20 genera and 137 species, yet it is likely that this region of North America includes two to three times that many species; at least six new genera are defined, but not yet formally described.

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Citation: Metzler EH, Brown JW. 2014. An updated check list of the Cochylina (Tortricidae, Tortricinae, Euliini) of North America north of Mexico including Greenland, with comments on classification and identification. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society. 68(4):274–282.