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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Anomologinae » Aristotelia » Pink-washed Aristotelia - Hodges#1761 (Aristotelia roseosuffusella)
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Is this a leaf mine? Yes it is! - Aristotelia roseosuffusella
Copyright © 2019 MJ Hatfield

Is this a leaf mine? Yes it is! - Aristotelia roseosuffusella
Armund's Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
September 7, 2019
It looks to be 2 leaves of Purple prairie clover, Dalea purpurea, silked together. Very clever. However, I may be completely mistaken about what I thought I saw.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it before but didn't think to look really close.
Once I pulled the leaves apart, frass was at both ends, in the open near the petiole and inside the leaf mine portion at the apical end of the leaf.
Both empty.

TPE field trip to this hill prairie remnant

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Is this a leaf mine? Yes it is! - Aristotelia roseosuffusella Is this a leaf mine? - Aristotelia roseosuffusella 2 leaves pulled apart - Aristotelia roseosuffusella
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 8 September, 2019 - 1:46pm
Last updated 2 December, 2019 - 5:41pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

Seems reasonable, pending further investigation.
… Charley Eiseman, 2 December, 2019 - 9:48am login or register to post comments

What is the plant?
There are several moths known to do a combination of mining and leaftying on legumes (this seems to be some sort of legume?).
… Charley Eiseman, 10 September, 2019 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

 
Sorry.
I must have been so excited when I posted that I forgot to even mention the plant. Golly.
… MJ Hatfield, 10 September, 2019 - 9:25am login or register to post comments

 
Dalea was my guess...
but as you know I'm not very familiar with that plant. I wonder if this relates to my note about Aristotelia roseosuffusella at the beginning of the Trifolium key (p. 809)?
… Charley Eiseman, 10 September, 2019 - 9:33am login or register to post comments

 
Do you think
this can be moved to Aristotelia roseosuffusella?
… MJ Hatfield, 30 November, 2019 - 9:28am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
I actually read that paragraph before posting but did not make a connection. Yes, this certainly could be Aristotelia roseosuffusella.
In July I sent Terry Harrison some leaf tiers on Purple prairie clover from this site hoping they were this one:

but they turned out to be Aristotelia roseosuffusella.
Perhaps Chambers statement was not in error.
… MJ Hatfield, 10 September, 2019 - 9:55am login or register to post comments

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