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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 » Salicaceae-feeding species (Phyllonorycter Salicaceae-feeding species) » Balsam Poplar Leaf Blotch Miner Moth - Hodges#0774 (Phyllonorycter nipigon)

Species Phyllonorycter nipigon - Balsam Poplar Leaf Blotch Miner Moth - Hodges#0774

Classification · Hodges Number · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited
Phyllonorycter nipigon Balsam Poplar Leaf Blotch Miner - Phyllonorycter nipigon Balsam Poplar Leaf Blotch Miner - Phyllonorycter nipigon Gracillaridae: Phyllonorycter nipigon - Phyllonorycter nipigon Gracillaridae: Phyllonorycter nipigon - Phyllonorycter nipigon Phyllonorycter? on Populus trichocarpa - Phyllonorycter nipigon Gracillariidae: Phyllonorycter nipigon - Phyllonorycter nipigon Gracillariidae: Phyllonorycter nipigon - Phyllonorycter nipigon
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Gracillarioidea (Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths)
Family Gracillariidae (Leaf Blotch Miner Moths)
Subfamily Lithocolletinae
Genus Phyllonorycter
No Taxon (Salicaceae-feeding species)
Species nipigon (Balsam Poplar Leaf Blotch Miner Moth - Hodges#0774)
Hodges Number
0774
Explanation of Names
original combination Lithocolletis nipigon Freeman, 1970
Size
forewing length 3.4 - 4.4 mm (1)
Range
widespread across northern North America from Ontario, Canada, to Alaska (about 64°N) south to Colorado and the Sierra Nevada Mts (about 34°N) of California (1)
Food
primarily mines in Populus balsamifera L., less commonly on P. balsamifera trichocarpa and other Poplus and Salix (1)
Works Cited
1.Biology and systematics of the North American Phyllonorycter leafminers on Salicaceae, with a synoptic catalog of the Palearctic
Donald R. Davis & Gerfried Deschka. 2001. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 14.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 13 October, 2009 - 7:15pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 22 May, 2012 - 11:36pm

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