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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Stigmella » prunifoliella group (Stigmella prunifoliella group) » Stigmella ceanothi - Hodges#0071 (Stigmella ceanothi)
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Redroot leaf mine, upper side of leaf - Stigmella ceanothi
Copyright © 2015 MJ Hatfield

Redroot leaf mine, upper side of leaf - Stigmella ceanothi
Sy Runkel, Monona County, Iowa, USA
June 3, 2014
Redroot, Ceanothus herbaceus, leaf miner from a Loess Hills prairie remnant collected June 1, 2014
I was curious as to whether or not this leaf mine was connected to the small lep larva on the surface of the leaf, caught in it's shed.
C. Eiseman ID'd both the leaf miner and the larva and they are/were not related.

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Redroot leaf mine, upper side of leaf - Stigmella ceanothi Redroot leaf mine, under side of leaf - Stigmella ceanothi Redroot leaf mine, larva on underside of leaf - Stigmella ceanothi
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 20 January, 2015 - 8:17pm
Last updated 3 January, 2018 - 9:24am

Moved
Moved from prunifoliella group.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 January, 2018 - 9:24am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Stigmella.
… Charley Eiseman, 8 October, 2016 - 8:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bucculatrix anaticula.

Nah, I had it right before. Although no one has ever reared an eastern Stigmella from Ceanothus, there is a species known from larvae. I still think this larva is the Bucculatrix though.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 September, 2015 - 7:23pm login or register to post comments

 
What would
that species be?
Thanks.
… MJ Hatfield, 5 October, 2016 - 9:11pm login or register to post comments

 
An undescribed species
I reared a few from Ceanothus americanus this year.
… Charley Eiseman, 6 October, 2016 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Stigmella.
I hadn't registered how tiny this mine is. Both the mine and the larva seem consistent with Bucculatrix, and there are no known eastern Stigmella species on Ceanothus. See notes on the guide page--definitely worth adding to your long list of things to follow up on.
… Charley Eiseman, 21 January, 2015 - 7:29am login or register to post comments

 
Charley!!
Wow. That is 2 mysteries solved in 2 days.

(Eggs of Cassida rubiginosa being the first mystery)
On both of these mysteries I was convinced there was not enough information to get an ID to family, let along species.
Great sleuthing.
… MJ Hatfield, 21 January, 2015 - 7:53am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
… MJ Hatfield, 21 January, 2015 - 6:02am login or register to post comments

Lep mine, yes...
...but it's a Stigmella mine and that doesn't look like a Stigmella larva.
… Charley Eiseman, 20 January, 2015 - 9:56pm login or register to post comments

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