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St. Andrews leaf miner on Centrosema virginianum SA177 2015 1 - Porphyrosela desmodiella

St. Andrews leaf miner on Centrosema virginianum SA177 2015 1 - Porphyrosela desmodiella
Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina, USA
September 30, 2015

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St. Andrews leaf miner on Centrosema virginianum SA177 2015 1 - Porphyrosela desmodiella St. Andrews leaf miner on Centrosema virginianum SA177 2015 2 - Porphyrosela desmodiella

I may have this one wrong
Do you still have these leaves? Your parasitoid with this reference number is a chalcidid, which suggests a beetle host. It would be great if we could find the leaf with the exit hole and confirm the host record.

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These looked different to me
These looked different to me than Sumitrosis rosea. They looked just a little more like the tent-maker mines on Prunus in a way--more opaque, with the leaf folded a bit and a fatter mine.

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