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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Cosmet Moths (Cosmopterigidae) » Cosmopteriginae » Cosmopterix
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Mine on Carex sp. - Cosmopterix
Copyright © 2016 Michael W. Palmer

Mine on Carex sp. - Cosmopterix
Mehan, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA
January 7, 2016
underside view, after a new mine was formed

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Mine on Carex sp. - Cosmopterix Mine on Carex sp. - Cosmopterix
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Contributed by Michael W. Palmer on 7 January, 2016 - 5:29pm
Last updated 11 April, 2016 - 1:00pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
… Charley Eiseman, 11 April, 2016 - 1:00pm login or register to post comments

Clarification
This is the same larva from the first photo, correct? A Cosmopterix has emerged in the vial labeled "1019", and on the spreadsheet you listed 1/7/2016 as the collection date for 1019. Since your comments for 1019 include "Would not move to fresh leaves," I wanted to double-check that this is in fact the same larva from the Carex leaf collected on 12/23/2015.
… Charley Eiseman, 11 April, 2016 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

 
yes
I think it finally DID move after I wrote would not move', but I failed to update that text.
I did discard another specimen that left and died externally, and a third that got pinched in a crease in the leaf and expired. But I still have 2 live but slow larvae here. Their history is a bit less confusing, so I am hoping they'll come through....
… Michael W. Palmer, 11 April, 2016 - 12:55pm login or register to post comments

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