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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Ectoedemia » platanella group (Ectoedemia platanella group)

platanella group

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Sycamore Leaf Miner [Ectoedemia? platanella??] ID Request - Ectoedemia platanella Leaf Mine [=Ectoedemia? platanella??] Confirmation Request - Ectoedemia platanella St. Andrews leaf miner on Platanus occidentalus SA222 Ectoedemia maybe 2015 2 - Ectoedemia clemensella St. Andrews leaf miner on Platanus occidentalus SA223 Cameraria maybe 2015 2 - Ectoedemia platanella Durham leaf miner on Platanus occidentalus D364 2016 2 - Ectoedemia clemensella Leigh Farm Park leaf miner on Platanus occidentalis D826 2017 3 - Ectoedemia platanella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Carya tomentosa D1096 2018 2 - Ectoedemia virgulae Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Carya tomentosa D1096 2018 4 - Ectoedemia virgulae
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Nepticuloidea (Pygmy Leafmining Moths)
Family Nepticulidae
Genus Ectoedemia
No Taxon platanella group
Numbers
4 described species and at least 2 undescribed, all in North America (1)
Food
3 species on sycamore; 3 on Fagales (oak, hazelnut, hickory)
Internet References
Doorenweerd, Camiel, Erik J. van Nieukerken, and Steph B. J. Menken. 2015. A global phylogeny of leafmining Ectoedemia moths (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): exploring host plant family shifts and allopatry as drivers of speciation. PLoS ONE 10(3):e0119586. (available here)
Works Cited
1.Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea)
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 27 May, 2015 - 9:35pm
Last updated 1 November, 2016 - 10:30am

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