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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Shield Bearer Moths (Heliozelidae) » Aspilanta » Aspilanta argentifera - Hodges#0242 (Aspilanta argentifera)
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St. Andrews Leaf miner on Myrica cerifera SA615 2016 1 - Aspilanta argentifera
Copyright © 2016 Tracy S. Feldman

St. Andrews Leaf miner on Myrica cerifera SA615 2016 1 - Aspilanta argentifera
Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina, USA
September 27, 2016

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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 27 September, 2016 - 10:18pm
Last updated 15 November, 2016 - 7:25pm

Moved
Moved from undescribed-species-on-morella-cerifera.
… Charley Eiseman, 15 November, 2016 - 7:25pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from New-genus-near-neurobathra new-species.

Whoops... it has now cut out a pupal case.
… Charley Eiseman, 2 October, 2016 - 9:37pm login or register to post comments

 
This looks different from the
This looks different from the other ones--is this the same thing as the other Coptodisca on Myrica cerifera? It looked a lot bigger.
… Tracy S. Feldman, 2 October, 2016 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

 
The larva seemed way too big,
but the oval cut-out is the same size and shape as the others. I'm going to assume it's the same until an adult emerges.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 October, 2016 - 7:05am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

This larva does resemble the gracillariine bayberry miner. It makes a linear mine that turns into a blotch, but it probably can switch leaves as Neurobathra occasionally does.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 September, 2016 - 11:19am login or register to post comments

 
Do I need to send additional
Do I need to send additional leaves to you, or do you have enough extras with ones from aborted Coptodisca mines?
… Tracy S. Feldman, 29 September, 2016 - 7:08pm login or register to post comments

 
I think it should be able to complete development in this leaf
but if not, I can give it one of the Coptodisca leaves.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 September, 2016 - 7:13pm login or register to post comments

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