Choristoneura occidentalis

Familia: Tortricidae
Subfamilia: Tortricinae
Tribus: Archipini
Genus: Choristoneura
Species:

Choristoneura occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891)

Type locality: Gambia, Bathurst.

Typus: Lectotype male ♂, BMNH GS 4761 BM, XII-1884 [?], legit Gilbert T. Carter ("5, CARTER 1886, No. 88"); Paralectotype female ♀, BMNH GS 4719 BM, 1885 [?], legit Gilbert T. Carter ("CARTER 1885, No. 278"). [Note: Originally Syntypes "six specimens" unsexed on "XI-XII", appears to mean in various years of late 1880s].

CURRENT STATUS: **Contested** See Archips occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891)

(see under Archips occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891), after Fernald, 1908, but contra to later proposed recombination Choristoneura occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891) of Razowski, 2008, resulting in a senior homonym with Choristoneura occidentalis Freeman, 1967

• Brown, J.W. 2005. World Catalogue of Insects. Volume 5: Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) 1–741. Apollo Books. ISBN 9788788757415 Reference page. 
• Gilligan, T.M. & Brown, J.W. 2014. A new name for the western spruce budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)? The Canadian Entomologist 146: 583–589. DOI: 10.4039/tce.2014.17 Reference page. 
• Fernald, M.L. 1908. Notes on some plants of northeastern America (continued). Rhodora 10(113): 84–95. JSTOR BHL Reference page. 
• Freeman, H.A., 1967. On coniferophagous species of Choristoneura (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in North America: I. Some new forms of Choristoneura allied to C. fumiferana. The Canadian Entomologist 99(5): 449–455.PDF Reference page. 
• Meyrick, E., 1909d. New South African Micro-Lepidoptera. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 349–379. BHL Reference page. 
• Razowski, J, 2008. Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from South Africa. 6: Choristoneura Hübner and Procrica Diakonoff. Polish Journal of Entomology 77(3): 245–254. PDF. Reference page. 
• Razowski, J. & Krüger, M. 2013. An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Tortricidae in the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). SHILAP revista de lepidopterologia 41(162): 213–240. PDF. Reference page. 
• Walsingham, T. 1891. African Micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1891: 63–132. BHL Reference page. 

• BHL bibliography
• Choristoneura occidentalis – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Choristoneura occidentalis.
• ION

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