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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 ostryaefoliella - Hodges#0781 (Phyllonorycter ostryaefoliella)
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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginiana D1407 2019 2 - Phyllonorycter ostryaefoliella
Copyright © 2019 Tracy S. Feldman

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Ostrya virginiana D1407 2019 2 - Phyllonorycter ostryaefoliella
Lake Crabtree County Park, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
May 3, 2019
I think this is Phyllonorycter ostryaefoliella--I am hoping there is a chance of getting it this year...

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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 5 May, 2019 - 3:29pm
Last updated 14 May, 2019 - 7:12pm

Moved
Moved from Phyllonorycter obscuricostella.

The ones in these photos look just like the mines you just sent that are definitely ostryaefoliella (based on the frass-covered cocoons inside).
… Charley Eiseman, 14 May, 2019 - 7:12pm login or register to post comments

 
An adult Phyllonorycter ostryaefoliella has now emerged
from one of the remaining mines.
… Charley Eiseman, 19 May, 2019 - 6:35am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

Two adults just emerged.
… Charley Eiseman, 9 May, 2019 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

 
Interesting--Could this mean
Interesting--Could this mean that there is only one Phyllonorycter species on Ostrya at Lake Crabtree? Or am I confused on the mine characteristics?
… Tracy S. Feldman, 9 May, 2019 - 11:50am login or register to post comments

 
The key mine characteristic
is that Phyllonorycter ostryaefoliella makes a frass-covered cocoon. Its mine is usually near the leaf margin, and mines of P. obscuricostella often are not--they also are supposed to be smaller and less wrinkled. It's possible that you collected two species in this vial; the ones in your photos are much larger than the ones that the two moths emerged from. Hopefully the remaining larvae will survive at least long enough for me to see what their cocoons are like.
… Charley Eiseman, 9 May, 2019 - 11:58am login or register to post comments

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