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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ermine Moths and kin (Yponomeutoidea) » Sun Moths (Heliodinidae) » Aetole » Aetole tripunctella - Hodges#2505 (Aetole tripunctella)
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Mine on Mirabilis jalapa - Bucculatrix? - Aetole tripunctella
Copyright © 2015 Michael W. Palmer

Mine on Mirabilis jalapa - Bucculatrix? - Aetole tripunctella
Mehan, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA
July 28, 2015
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Contributed by Michael W. Palmer on 28 July, 2015 - 3:57pm
Last updated 11 August, 2015 - 3:32pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
… Charley Eiseman, 11 August, 2015 - 3:32pm login or register to post comments

A Bucculatrix cocoon, yes...
...but no Bucculatrix is known from Mirabilis, and these don't resemble Bucculatrix mines. Bucculatrix larvae often wander from their host plants before spinning cocoons.

My guess for these is Aetole tripunctella, which is known from Oklahoma. Mirabilis jalapa would be a new host record for any leafminer, I think.
… Charley Eiseman, 28 July, 2015 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

 
A wasp emerged from the cocoon
Are there any oaks overhead / nearby? Other native plants that might have been the source of the Bucculatrix? (Many of those that aren't on oaks and related trees are on Asteraceae...)
… Charley Eiseman, 7 August, 2015 - 6:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Quercus
Yes, Quercus stellata pretty much overhead.
… Michael W. Palmer, 7 August, 2015 - 6:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Braconid

Suspiciously similar to this one:
… Charley Eiseman, 17 January, 2016 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Elegant
At least 3 more similar ones emerged from another bulk Dichanthelium collection, though one got away.
… Michael W. Palmer, 17 January, 2016 - 2:53pm login or register to post comments

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