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Eupoecilia

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ1765523 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eupoecilia is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Stephens in 1829.

Species

Eupoecilia aburica Razowski, 1993

Eupoecilia acrographa (Turner, 1916)

Eupoecilia ambiguella (Hübner, [1796])

Eupoecilia amphimnesta (Meyrick, 1928)

Eupoecilia anebrica Diakonoff, 1983

Eupoecilia angustana (Hübner, [1796-1799])

Eupoecilia anisoneura Diakonoff, 1982

Eupoecilia armifera Razowski, 1968

Eupoecilia cebrana (Hübner, [1811-1813])

Eupoecilia charixantha (Meyrick, 1928)

Eupoecilia citrinana Razowski, 1960

Eupoecilia coniopa Diakonoff, 1984

Eupoecilia cracens Diakonoff, 1982

Eupoecilia crocina Razowski, 1968

Eupoecilia dactylota (Diakonoff, 1952)

Eupoecilia dentana Razowski, 1968

Eupoecilia diana Razowski, 1968

Eupoecilia dynodesma (Diakonoff, 1971)

Eupoecilia engelinae (Diakonoff, 1941)

Eupoecilia eucalypta (Meyrick, 1928)

Eupoecilia inouei Kawabe, 1972

Eupoecilia kobeana Razowski, 1968

Eupoecilia kruegeriana Razowski, 1993

Eupoecilia lata Razowski, 1968

Eupoecilia neurosema (Meyrick, 1938)

Eupoecilia ochrotona Razowski, 1968

Eupoecilia quinaspinalis X.Zhang & H.H.Li, 2008

Eupoecilia reliquatrix (Meyrick, 1928)

Eupoecilia sanguisorbana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1856)

Eupoecilia scytalephora (Diakonoff, 1952)

Eupoecilia sumatrana Diakonoff, 1983

Eupoecilia sumbana (Diakonoff, 1953)

Eupoecilia taneces (Diakonoff, 1973)

Eupoecilia tenggerensis (Diakonoff, 1949)

Eupoecilia thalia Diakonoff, 1984

Eupoecilia wegneri (Diakonoff, 1941)

Eupoecilia yubariana Razowski, 2005

Synonyms

Arachniotes Diakonoff, 1952 (type species: Arachniotes dactylota Diakonoff, 1952)

Clysia Hübner, [1825] (type species: Tinea ambiguella Hübner, 1796 [preoccupied])

Clysiana T. B. Fletcher, 1941 [replacement name for Clysia]

Eupecilia Herrich-Schäffer, 1851 [misspelling of Eupoecilia]

See also

List of Tortricidae genera

References

Stephens, 1829, A Systematic Catalogue of British Insects (2): 190.

John W. Brown, 2005, World Catalogue of Insects 5

Razowski, J., 2011: Diagnoses and remarks on genera of Tortricidae, 2: Cochylini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 39 (156): 397–414.

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“Eupoecilia” enters the record as genus of insects. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eupoecilia, genus and insects can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1765523. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1829, 1993, 1916 and 1796.

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