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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginiana D1114 Phyllonorycter 2018 1 - Phyllonorycter obscuricostella
Copyright © 2018 Tracy S. Feldman

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginiana D1114 Phyllonorycter 2018 1 - Phyllonorycter obscuricostella
Lake Crabtree County Park, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
July 20, 2018
Not sure if this one is the same as the others--did we ever get any adults from the P. ostryaefoliella mines?

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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginiana D1114 Phyllonorycter 2018 1 - Phyllonorycter obscuricostella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginiana D1114 Phyllonorycter 2018 2 - Phyllonorycter obscuricostella
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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 21 July, 2018 - 11:12pm
Last updated 13 May, 2019 - 7:34pm

Moved
Moved from Phyllonorycter.

I just found the dead pupa in the vial--not sure when it popped out of the mine, but the adult never emerged. However, the completed mine confirms my suspected ID, and what I can see of the wing pattern is consistent with this species.
… Charley Eiseman, 13 May, 2019 - 7:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

I don't think we did. This is more likely to be obscuricostella given its placement between two veins rather than at the leaf margin.
… Charley Eiseman, 23 July, 2018 - 2:34pm login or register to post comments

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