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Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 1 - Talponia plummeriana

Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 1 - Talponia plummeriana
Lake Crabtree County Park, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
June 26, 2018
Bucculatrix, I think--any known from this species?

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Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 1 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 2 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 3 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 4 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 5 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 6 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 8 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 15 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 16 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 17 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner maybe on Asimina triloba D1067 2018 18 - Talponia plummeriana Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Asimina triloba D1067 Bucculatrix cocoon 2018 1 - Bucculatrix Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Asimina triloba D1067 Bucculatrix cocoon 2018 2 - Bucculatrix

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I am pretty sure this is Asim
I am pretty sure this is Asimina parviflora instead of A. triloba.

I'd like to take a look at this leaf
This is the only mine I've previously seen on this host:

 
I collected this leaf for a c
I collected this leaf for a completely different purpose, and happened to see the mine when examining it for other reasons. I never would have seen it otherwise. I can post close-up photos soon. I found and collected several leaves with apparent mines like this, and one with an apparent cocoon (broken and empty) on the underside of the leaf--not sure if the mines and the cocoon are connected, yet the cocoon did look vaguely like other Bucculatrix cocoons I've seen (perhaps wishful thinking?). I looked for other cocoons and found none.

 
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