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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) » Phyllocnistinae » Phyllocnistis » Common Aspen Leaf Miner - Hodges#0852 (Phyllocnistis populiella)
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Aspen leaf mine - Phyllocnistis populiella
Copyright © 2012 John F. Carr

Aspen leaf mine - Phyllocnistis populiella
Angel Lake, Elko County, Nevada, USA
August 28, 2012
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Contributed by John F. Carr on 28 August, 2012 - 11:36pm
Last updated 29 August, 2012 - 5:20pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
I think this is a species complex with other, undescribed species involved in the west, but this is the best placement for now. Getting the exact species of Populus may be useful.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 August, 2012 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

 
"Quaking aspen"
USFS says quaking aspen (http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/htnf/recarea?recid=66132) or dwarf aspen (http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/htnf/recreation/camping-cabins/recarea?recid=65736&actid=29), with dwarf possibly a descriptive term rather than a species. The aspen trees were small.
… John F. Carr, 29 August, 2012 - 5:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes
Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides); "dwarf" is indeed just a decriptive term for short specimens (in this case induced by the subalpine environment).
… John Pearson, 30 August, 2012 - 8:38am login or register to post comments

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