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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ermine Moths and kin (Yponomeutoidea) » Lyonet Moths (Lyonetiidae) » Cemiostominae » Leucoptera » Laburnum Leaf Miner Moth - Hodges#0479 (Leucoptera laburnella)
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blotch mine on Laburnum - Leucoptera laburnella
Copyright © 2014 John Pearson

blotch mine on Laburnum - Leucoptera laburnella
Eastsound, Orcas Island, San Juan County, Washington, USA
June 7, 2014
Size: ~2 cm broad
Many leaflets on this French Broom Tree (Genista monospessulana) Golden Chain Tree (Laburnum sp.) displayed large leaf mines on their upper surfaces. Mines only faintly visible from underside of leaflets.

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blotch mine on Laburnum - Leucoptera laburnella blotch mine on Laburnum - Leucoptera laburnella
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Contributed by John Pearson on 8 June, 2014 - 6:56pm
Last updated 2 January, 2019 - 2:41pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
I love it when I have no idea what a leaf mine is, but then easily find the answer in my manuscript! This moth is known from Genista tinctoria and various other Fabaceae. Your mines are a good match for these. This may be the first North American host record.
… Charley Eiseman, 9 June, 2014 - 5:35am login or register to post comments

 
Laburnum
Thanks, Charley, how interesting! After I read your description and links, I revisited my plant identification and see that it was indeed Laburnum after all (in same tribe as Genista); I have corrected this in my introductory comments. This tree species was common along a residential street in the village of Eastsound on Orcas Island, evidently planted as an ornamental.
… John Pearson, 9 June, 2014 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

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