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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Leaf Miner Flies (Agromyzidae) » Ophiomyiinae » Ophiomyia » Ophiomyia carolinensis
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more mines on arrow-leaved aster - Ophiomyia carolinensis
Copyright © 2011 John Pearson

more mines on arrow-leaved aster - Ophiomyia carolinensis
Ledges State Park, Boone, Boone County, Iowa, USA
July 31, 2011
Size: 3-4 mm wide (blotchy)
Mine on upper leaf surface of Zigzag Goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis) Arrow-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum sagittifolium). Along wooded trail.

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Contributed by John Pearson on 2 August, 2011 - 8:50pm
Last updated 22 November, 2019 - 9:13pm

Moved
Moved from Ophiomyia.
… Charley Eiseman, 22 November, 2019 - 9:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
… Charley Eiseman, 25 March, 2018 - 2:01pm login or register to post comments

A few thoughts...
- I think this is actually Eurybia divaricata or another similar "aster"
- There seem to be mines of two different insects on this leaf. I suspect that the narrow, fragmented one is an Ophiomyia, and that the other one is Sumitrosis inaequalis. Both of those would actually make more sense if this is some kind of Symphyotrichum, actually. Maybe in another five or six years I'll have a better idea...
… Charley Eiseman, 28 January, 2017 - 1:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Symphyotrichum sagittifolium
Good call, this is Arrow-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum sagittifolium). Zigzag Goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis) was intermixed in the same stand, but its name was misapplied to this photo.
… John Pearson, 30 January, 2017 - 6:32am login or register to post comments

 
Here's something similar:

This may all be the work of one insect after all. I'll have to keep an eye out for these this year.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 January, 2017 - 8:19am login or register to post comments

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… Charley Eiseman, 30 August, 2011 - 5:19pm login or register to post comments

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