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Leigh Farm Park leaf miner on Carex LFP37 2016 1 - Taphrocerus nicolayi
Copyright © 2016 Tracy S. Feldman

Leigh Farm Park leaf miner on Carex LFP37 2016 1 - Taphrocerus nicolayi
Durham, Leigh Farm Park, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
June 10, 2016

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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 10 June, 2016 - 12:05pm
Last updated 29 January, 2017 - 9:23am

Moved
Moved from Taphrocerus.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 January, 2017 - 9:23am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

I guess my previous comment was based on the assumption that this was something that has been reared from Carex before. I did notice that the frass pattern was unusual, but the larva appeared to be a lep from what I could see. Taphrocerus species are mostly associated with Cyperaceae, but this is the first time anyone has found a larva on Carex. I'll get the adult identified eventually... do you think this was more C. flaccosperma?
… Charley Eiseman, 9 July, 2016 - 7:44am login or register to post comments

 
Exciting news--I can't think
Exciting news--I can't think of anything else it would be. If not a Carex, then a Cyperus (not that) or Scleria (not that). I am pretty sure it was Carex, and C. flaccosperma seems most likely, given that Carex with similar glaucus leaves from the same section of woods turned out to be C. flaccosperma (and I saw no other plants like it in the same area).
… Tracy S. Feldman, 9 July, 2016 - 11:07am login or register to post comments

Gelechioidea
Elachista or possibly Cosmopterix. I hope this larva hurries up; it is almost out of leaf. I'll add a fresh sedge leaf in case it is able to make a second mine.
… Charley Eiseman, 17 June, 2016 - 2:47pm login or register to post comments

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