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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Stigmella » rhamnella group (Stigmella rhamnella group) » Stigmella undescribed-species-on-frangula-purshiana
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Nepticulid in Frangula (Rhamnus) purshiana - Stigmella undescribed-species-on-frangula-purshiana
Copyright © 2016 Michael W. Palmer

Nepticulid in Frangula (Rhamnus) purshiana - Stigmella undescribed-species-on-frangula-purshiana
Blue River, Lane County, Oregon, USA
March 9, 2016
larvae exited and cocoons formed a few days after leaves collected.
Collection 1057

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Contributed by Michael W. Palmer on 22 March, 2016 - 9:46am
Last updated 3 September, 2016 - 10:05am

Parasitoid
Three of these emerged from some of the cocoons you sent:

As luck would have it, shortly afterward I was asked if I had any Adelius specimens, since the genus is being revised. This is the first host record for A. coloradensis.
… Charley Eiseman, 13 September, 2016 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Awesome!
But I wonder how satisfying it is if the only known host is undescribed...
… Michael W. Palmer, 13 September, 2016 - 9:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Hopefully...
when the species is named, the paper that describes it will cite the braconid paper so that the link between the two is definitively established. I'm going to help Erik with some papers on North American nepticulids, so I may have the opportunity to make sure that happens. Two of the three parasitoid species I've coauthored so far (all Platygaster spp.) likewise were reared from hosts that have yet to be described.
… Charley Eiseman, 13 September, 2016 - 9:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Nepticulidae.

I sent Erik van Nieukerken the three adults I reared, and he says: "I checked the dissected genitalia and they don't look like any named species. It is probably related to S. rhamnicola, and I place this and related species now in the Holarctic Stigmella rhamnella group."
… Charley Eiseman, 3 September, 2016 - 10:05am login or register to post comments

 
Nice!
Probably should let Terry know too since I sent him some specimens as well.
… Michael W. Palmer, 3 September, 2016 - 10:49am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

I'm not sure how to distinguish Acalyptris and Stigmella mines, although the cocoons are identical to the one made by this Stigmella:
… Charley Eiseman, 23 March, 2016 - 10:32am login or register to post comments

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