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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Acalyptris
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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Scleria oligantha D1765 2019 1 - Acalyptris
Copyright © 2019 Tracy S. Feldman

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Scleria oligantha D1765 2019 1 - Acalyptris
Lake Crabtree County Park, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
July 2, 2019
Probably all empty--Elachista?

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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Scleria oligantha D1765 2019 1 - Acalyptris Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Scleria oligantha D1765 2019 2 - Acalyptris Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Scleria oligantha D1765 2019 5 - Acalyptris Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Scleria oligantha D1765 2019 6 - Acalyptris
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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 3 July, 2019 - 8:00am
Last updated 15 July, 2019 - 7:59am

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

In nature the sedge-feeding Acalyptris spp. often spin their cocoons on the host plant (e.g. in leaf axils), so you can look for those. I did find a cocoon on one of these leaves, spun in the central groove on the upper surface.

Elachista pupae can also sometimes be found on leaves of the host--I got a bunch on Scirpus microcarpus in Michigan that way.
… Charley Eiseman, 15 July, 2019 - 7:59am login or register to post comments

 
Cool! I will look. Is there
Cool! I will look. Is there any way you could send/post a photo of a cocoon so I know what to look for?
… Tracy S. Feldman, 15 July, 2019 - 10:52am login or register to post comments

 
I might not get to it right away,
but it's a typical nepticulid cocoon: flat, oval, ~2 mm long...

The one on the Scleria leaf is off-white (slightly brownish) with some frizzy silk spun around it.
… Charley Eiseman, 15 July, 2019 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

 
this helps. I'll look around
this helps. I'll look around.
… Tracy S. Feldman, 15 July, 2019 - 11:11am login or register to post comments

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