Eucosma

Taxobox
regnum = Animalia

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image_caption = "Eucosma campoliliana"
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Glossata
infraordo = Heteroneura
zoodivision = Ditrysia
superfamilia = Tortricoidea
familia = Tortricidae
subfamilia = Olethreutinae
genus = "Eucosma"
genus_authority = Hübner, 1823
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = many, see text

"Eucosma" is a very large genus of moths belonging to the family Tortricidae. The genus has a Holarctic and Indomalayan distribution (Some Afrotropical species originally described in this genus have since been reassigned to other genera [http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc_i/pdf/47(3-4)/04.pdf] ). Even in well-studied Europe and North America, new species are still regularly discovered ( [http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/lepid/leptort.htm#anchor109184 Nomina Insecta Nearctica] lists 150 Nearctic species and [http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=291928 Fauna Europaea] lists 53 European species).

These are small moths in a wide variety of colours, sometimes plain, sometimes with bold patterning.

References

* [http://bugguide.net/node/view/23657 "Eucosma" at BugGuide.Net]