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Map 6. — Distribution of Bondia comonana. 



disease produced by a bacterial pathogen, Pseudomonas tumefaciens 

 (S. and T.) Diiggar. Larvae of B. comonana are also known to attack 

 healthy plant tissue. Essig (1958) reports large numbers of the larvae 

 infesting the healthy limbs of French prune which had been grafted 

 onto apricot trees. The insect became so abundant that several of 

 the grafted limbs were killed. Keifer (1943) refers to the pest as the 

 prune limb borer and states that the larva msij occasionally enter 

 peach fruit. The latter author also mentions that the species over- 

 winters as a pupa inside a cocoon. 



Carposina euryleuca was one of several names proposed by Meyrick 

 (1912b) to replace a series of "barbarous" names used by Kearfott. 

 Meyrick, being thoroughly schooled in Latin and Greek, objected 

 to those names because of their nonclassical origin and submitted 

 the specific epithet euryleuca as a replacement name for Kearfott's 

 comonana. Under our current code of nomenclature, however, such a 

 substitution is not valid and, thus, all of Meyrick's replacement 

 names have since been synonymized. 



