. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 46 NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 2 89. 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 occasionall
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 46 NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 2 89. 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 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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