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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillarioidea) » Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillariidae) » Lithocolletinae » Phyllonorycter » Phyllonorycter quercialbella - Hodges#0785 (Phyllonorycter quercialbella)
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Leaf Blotch Miner Moth - Phyllonorycter quercialbella
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

Leaf Blotch Miner Moth - Phyllonorycter quercialbella
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 14, 2009
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Contributed by tom murray on 15 May, 2009 - 9:38pm
Last updated 16 May, 2009 - 2:31pm

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… tom murray, 16 May, 2009 - 2:30pm login or register to post comments

0785 - Phyllonorycter quercialbella
I sent the photo to Terry Harrison, Referee for micromoths at Moth Photographers Group, and received the following opinion:

"This is a tough one. The maple-feeding P. clemensella is extremely similar to two oak-feeding spp., argentifimbriella and quercialbella. In the MA moth, the line that runs just below the costa looks to be golden, rather than black, in which case, based on the figures in Braun 1908, I would ID the moth as P. quercialbella."
… Bob Patterson, 16 May, 2009 - 1:59pm login or register to post comments

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