What is "larisa"

Larisa is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Olethreutinae of the family Tortricidae. It contains only one species, Larisa subsolana, which is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

The length of the forewings is 3.8-5.8 mm for males and 4.1-6.3 mm for females. The ground colour of the forewings is brown with a sharply delineated basal patch. The middle cross-band is greyish brown, grading to darker brown apically. There is a thin brown line centrally from the costa to the dorsum and the distal third is greyish brown, tinged in with rust in the costal half. Adults are mainly on wing from May to August.

The larvae feed on Carya illinoensis.

Larisa was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. Its surrounding territory was known in Greek as the (Larisaia). It has been located on a small rise by the coast now known as Limantepe, about 3.5 km from the village of Kösedere to the north-east and 3 km from the village of Babadere to the east, in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale province, Turkey. As with other Greek toponyms containing the consonantal string -ss-, spellings that drop one 's' exist alongside those that retain both in the ancient literary sources. Larisa in the Troad should not be confused with ' Aeolian' Larisa, near Menemen, or with ' Ionian' Larisa in İzmir province.