[ncsc-moths] Re: ID help, please

From: Harry Wilson <harrywilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:28:45 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Lois,

Thank you for the suggestion. The reported range is certainly closer to NC, and 
the photos seem to match pretty well also.

Harry


-----Original Message-----
>From: Lois Stacey <croakie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 18, 2011 8:10 PM
>To: ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [ncsc-moths] Re: ID help, please
>
>How about Rhyacionia adana, Adana Pine tip Moth
>
>http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=2877
>
>Lois Stacey
>
>On 2/18/2011 7:54 PM, Harry Wilson wrote:
>> Moth-ers,
>>
>> I have decided that moths should be required to carry identification with 
>> them. That way there will be some hope for me to maintain my sanity.
>>
>> Last night I took the attached photos, and many others, of a micro moth that 
>> is giving me a headache. One problem is that my sheet was not anchored as 
>> well as it should have been, so I had a constantly moving target. After 
>> searching through MPG and BugGuide, I believe that the closest match is an 
>> unlikely candidate, #2887.1,Rhyacionia duplana or Summer Shoot Moth/Elgin 
>> Shoot Moth. It resembles Tom Murrays photos from Groton MA at 
>> http://bugguide.net/node/view/382988 and 
>> http://www.pbase.com/image/123416460. This is a European and Asian moth that 
>> has been documented in the US only in MA, as far as I can tell. I have 
>> included information on host plants and distribution to show why I discount 
>> my tentative ID. I hope that someone may bring me back to my senses with a 
>> better, more logical, ID.
>>
>> Host plants: Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), Pinus contorta var. latifolia 
>> (Shore Pine, a common tree in western North America), Pinus thunbergii 
>> (Japanese Black Pine, Japanese Pine, Black Pine – native to Japan and S. 
>> Korea), Picea sitchensis (Sitka Spruce – from AK down coast to n. CA).
>> Distribution: Northern and Central Europe to Eastern Russia and Japan. Also 
>> recorded from Korea, but Byun et al., 1998, have not found any specimens.
>> In the UK, this species is represented by the subspecies Rhyacionia duplana 
>> logaea , where it is also known as the Elgin shoot moth; in Japan the 
>> subspecies Rhyacionia duplana simulata Heinrich occurs.
>>
>> Harry Wilson
>> Zebulon, NC
>
>-- 
>Lois Stacey
>North Augusta, SC (Aiken Cnty)
>www.augustaaikenaudubon.org
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