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Eucosma
Sign in to savethumb|Eucosma apacheana Eucosma is a very large genus of moths belonging to the family Tortricidae. Some taxonomies place a number of species in the genus Eucopina (e. g.: E. bobana, E. cocana, E. tocullionana). The genus has a Holarctic and Indomalayan distribution (some Afrotropical species originally described in this genus have since been reassigned to other genera ). Even in well-studied Europe and North America, new species are still regularly discovered ([https://web.archive.org/web/20080506140350/http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/lepid/leptort.htm#anchor109184 Nomina Insecta Nearctica li
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- Tortricidae
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- United States
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thumb|Eucosma apacheana Eucosma is a very large genus of moths belonging to the family Tortricidae. Some taxonomies place a number of species in the genus Eucopina (e. g.: E. bobana, E. cocana, E. tocullionana). The genus has a Holarctic and Indomalayan distribution (some Afrotropical species originally described in this genus have since been reassigned to other genera ). Even in well-studied Europe and North America, new species are still regularly discovered ([https://web.archive.org/web/20080506140350/http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/lepid/leptort.htm#anchor109184 Nomina Insecta Nearctica lists 150 Nearctic species and Fauna Europaea lists 53 European species). There are at least 670 described species in Eucosma worldwide.
These are small moths in a wide variety of colours, sometimes plain, sometimes with bold patterning.
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