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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillarioidea) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker Moths (Bucculatricidae) » Bucculatrix » Section II (aster and mint leafminers) (Bucculatrix Section II (aster and mint leafminers)) » Bucculatrix sororcula - Hodges#0543 (Bucculatrix sororcula)
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Bucculatrix from Ambrosia psilostachya - Bucculatrix sororcula
Copyright © 2016 Michael W. Palmer

Bucculatrix from Ambrosia psilostachya - Bucculatrix sororcula
Mehan, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA
August 10, 2016
collection 1498
(I have dorsal and ventral leaf photos too if of interest)

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Contributed by Michael W. Palmer on 11 September, 2016 - 3:15pm
Last updated 29 March, 2018 - 6:34pm

It would be really nice if this rearing could be repeated...
It seems highly probable that this is a mine of Astrotischeria ambrosiaeella and that the Bucculatrix larva was responsible for the external feeding damage, though if there was just this one leaf and you photographed both sides, it's hard to see how you would have missed seeing the larva...
… Charley Eiseman, 8 April, 2019 - 10:19am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Section II (aster and mint leafminers).
… Charley Eiseman, 29 March, 2018 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

Does Terry have this specimen? It isn't one of the Bucculatrix specimens he reported on in January.
… Charley Eiseman, 23 March, 2018 - 1:23pm login or register to post comments

Was this collected as a miner...
or as an externally feeding larva? Both of the known Ambrosia feeders that might occur in OK produce primarily linear mines, which I don't see here. The cocoon appears to be pinkish rather than white, suggesting Bucculatrix agnella over B. ambrosiaefoliella. A shot of the larva would help to confirm... I don't know the adult characters offhand.
… Charley Eiseman, 13 September, 2016 - 2:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Larva in leaf
Scarcely visible. I do not recall seeing the larva while external.
… Michael W. Palmer, 13 September, 2016 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Might as well add the other photos you have of the leaf
If the larva was in the apparent blotch mine that occupies most of the right half of the leaf, I would suspect this is neither of the possibilities I mentioned.
… Charley Eiseman, 13 September, 2016 - 3:16pm login or register to post comments

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