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badiiella or purinosella (Coptotriche badiiella or purinosella)
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Tracy S. Feldman
St. Andrews leaf miner on Quercus alba SA1200 2017 2 -
Coptotriche
Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina, USA
October 31, 2017
Cameraria? A species I've seen before?
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Contributed by
Tracy S. Feldman
on 31 October, 2017 - 9:34pm
Last updated 9 November, 2017 - 8:15pm
Moved
Moved from
Coptotriche badiiella
.
I've made a "
badiiella
or
purinosella
" page to store these until I can be sure how to distinguish mines of these species.
…
Charley Eiseman
, 9 November, 2017 - 8:15pm
Moved
Moved from
Unidentified Leaf Mines
.
This isn't a species
I've
seen before, but everything seems to fit. Note the lack of frass and the trumpet-shaped beginning (egg deposited on a lateral vein), both indicating
Coptotriche
rather than
Cameraria
. This species is almost exclusively found on
Q. alba
.
…
Charley Eiseman
, 1 November, 2017 - 6:35am
I should add...
There is a small chance that this is
C. purinosella
, but I still think
C. badiiella
is most likely. I should be able to tell definitively from the pupa even if no adult emerges.
…
Charley Eiseman
, 2 November, 2017 - 6:21pm
It seems to be putting frass
It seems to be putting frass out a hole in the mine--is that something Coptotriche does?
…
Tracy S. Feldman
, 4 November, 2017 - 2:26pm
Yes
Most tischeriids do, although there are three common oak miners that don't.
…
Charley Eiseman
, 4 November, 2017 - 8:14pm