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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Stigmella » betulicola group (Stigmella betulicola group) » Stigmella myricafoliella - Hodges#0094 (Stigmella myricafoliella)
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Leaf mine - Stigmella myricafoliella
Copyright © 2015 Aaron Hunt

Leaf mine - Stigmella myricafoliella
Block Island, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
August 25, 2015
On Myrica pensylvanica. Leaf mining Lepidoptera listed on HOSTS for M. pensylvanica are: Caloptilia flavella, Cameraria picturatella, and maybe Agonopterix walsinghamella, Psilocorsis cryptolechiella, and Dichomeris bipunctella (if they're miners.)
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Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 17 September, 2015 - 4:31pm
Last updated 18 September, 2015 - 3:49pm

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Moved from ID Request.

Of the five moths you listed, only the first two are leafminers--and there are at least five others on this host.
… Charley Eiseman, 17 September, 2015 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow
Exactly why I need help on these. I guess this should be a priority to raise next year, since MPG only has sightings from FL and GA and only one pinned image--no live ones. Plus, the only flight time data is March in FL, pretty useless for anywhere to the north. How would I rear one?
… Aaron Hunt, 17 September, 2015 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Rearing leafminers
The short answer is, put the leaf in a vial and wait. In the next couple of months I'm planning on putting a page on my website detailing my rearing techniques.

I've only found a single larva of this species; it was on Nantucket on August 4 (2012). I didn't manage to rear it, so I'm not sure when the adult would have emerged, but Erik van Nieukerken got a DNA barcode from the dead larva so I know that's what it was. Before that he was thinking this species might only occur in Florida, with Stigmella corylifoliella being responsible for similar mines to the north.
… Charley Eiseman, 19 September, 2015 - 7:21am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I'll be sure to look at the details in the spring! Hopefully I'll get one of these. I'd imagine there are quite a few, since bayberry is abundant here.
… Aaron Hunt, 19 September, 2015 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

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