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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Quercus alba D953 2018 1 - Coptotriche badiiella

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Quercus alba D953 2018 1 - Coptotriche badiiella
Lake Crabtree County Park, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
May 25, 2018
Coptotriche? the specialist on Q. alba?

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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Quercus alba D953 2018 1 - Coptotriche badiiella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Quercus alba D953 2018 2 - Coptotriche badiiella

Moved
Moved from badiiella or purinosella.

The larva in this mine matched Braun's drawing for C. badiiella and did not match a larva I reared to an adult C. purinosella in Massachusetts. Hopefully the difference I'm seeing is real, and not a matter of looking at different instars.

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

One of the two. These oak leaves aren't lasting well for some reason, and this is another species (like all tischeriids) where you could wait until it pupates before collecting.

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