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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) » Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillariidae) » Lithocolletinae » Phyllonorycter » Phyllonorycter obscuricostella - Hodges#0775 (Phyllonorycter obscuricostella)
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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginica D1002 Phyllonorycter 2018 1 - Phyllonorycter obscuricostella
Copyright © 2018 Tracy S. Feldman

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginica D1002 Phyllonorycter 2018 1 - Phyllonorycter obscuricostella
Lake Crabtree County Park, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
June 12, 2018
There are no apparent wrinkles on the underside of the mine (other than the one down the middle).

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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginica D1002 Phyllonorycter 2018 1 - Phyllonorycter obscuricostella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginica D1002 Phyllonorycter 2018 2 - Phyllonorycter obscuricostella
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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 12 June, 2018 - 10:44am
Last updated 13 June, 2018 - 2:09pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
… Charley Eiseman, 13 June, 2018 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

 
The adult emerged last night.
The adult emerged last night. Should I send it to you? Either way is fine. Any luck with the Phyllonorycter ostryaefoliella mines?
… Tracy S. Feldman, 15 June, 2018 - 7:45pm login or register to post comments

 
If you can confirm...
that the larva didn't form a frass-covered cocoon and that the adult looks like this

then I don't need to see the specimen.
… Charley Eiseman, 15 June, 2018 - 8:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes and yes. Ok, I won't sen
Yes and yes. Ok, I won't send it.
… Tracy S. Feldman, 15 June, 2018 - 8:14pm login or register to post comments

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