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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Momphid Moths (Momphidae) » Momphinae » Mompha » Undescribed midwestern Galium leafminer (Mompha undescribed-species-on-galium-midwestern)

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Blotch mine of Galium circaezans (empty) - Mompha undescribed-species-on-galium-midwestern

Mehan, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA
September 3, 2015

transmitted light, but practically transparent, so appeared similar on both surfaces. rule shows millimeters.

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Contributed by Michael W. Palmer on 3 September, 2015 - 2:37pm
Last updated 21 August, 2016 - 4:42pm

Moved

Moved from Mompha.

… Charley Eiseman, 21 August, 2016 - 4:42pm

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Moved

Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

… Charley Eiseman, 13 October, 2015 - 7:13am

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Mompha

May or may not be the undescribed species I reared from G. asprellum in Massachusetts last year. Another undescribed species is known from Galium in California. If you find a mine with a dead larva, Terry Harrison may be interested in having it for DNA barcoding (of course, larva or adult would be even better).

… Charley Eiseman, 3 September, 2015 - 6:04pm

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I'll look for more, live or d

I'll look for more, live or dead - but what about DNA from frass? I know that mammalogists get results from scat, but I don't know if any DNA is shed by inverts.

… Michael W. Palmer, 3 September, 2015 - 8:49pm

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Might be possible...

but to my knowledge no one has attempted it. I would imagine that the frass mostly contains plant DNA and the insect DNA would be in extremely small quantities.

… Charley Eiseman, 3 September, 2015 - 8:54pm

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This reference might be of in

This reference might be of interest: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/226590934_DNA_sequence_from_butterfly_frass_and_exuviae
In any case, the mine will eventually be en route to you - and I'll keep on looking.

… Michael W. Palmer, 3 September, 2015 - 9:02pm

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Barcoding leafminer frass

When I met Nepticulidae specialist Erik van Nieukerken last month, I asked him about this. He said he has tried it with leafminers but hasn't had any success.

… Charley Eiseman, 13 October, 2015 - 7:34am

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Very interesting...

I'll look into that.

… Charley Eiseman, 3 September, 2015 - 9:12pm

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