Review of the North American species of Rhopobota Lederer (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Eucosmini), with the description of a new species and a new subspecies mining leaves of hollies (Aquifoliaceae: Ilex Tourn. ex L.)
Review of the North American species of Rhopobota Lederer (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Eucosmini), with the description of a new species and a new subspecies mining leaves of hollies (Aquifoliaceae: Ilex Tourn. ex L.)
Abstract: The North American species of Rhopobota Lederer (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Eucosmini) are reviewed. All feed as larvae on hollies (Aquifoliaceae: Ilex Tourn. ex L.). The Holarctic species R. naevana (Hübner), which feeds on evergreen and deciduous hollies as well as ericaceous and other plants, overwinters as eggs and apparently never feeds as a leafminer. Rhopobota dietziana (Kearfott) s. str. is an external leaf feeder on various deciduous and evergreen hollies, overwintering as pupae, while R.