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Clover Leaf Miner ID Request - Aproaerema

Clover Leaf Miner ID Request - Aproaerema
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
August 5, 2016
Observed on Trifolium repens.

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

Apparently Aproaerema anthyllidella DOES occur in North America, but A. palpilineella reportedly makes similar mines. Annette Braun wrote in 1930 that the eastern clover-feeding species everyone was calling A. palpilineella was actually A. anthyllidella, but it seems like this has been ignored in subsequent literature. I just wrote to someone who may be able to clarify.

Aproaerema anthyllidella
is the only suspect I could locate on the web, but that moth is only known from Europe.

[See http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/aproaerema/anthyllidella/anthyllidella.htm.

 
Interesting possibility
Any chance you could collect some of these mines and send them to me to examine?

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