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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Lespedeza cuneata D1918 2019 1
Copyright © 2019 Tracy S. Feldman

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Lespedeza cuneata D1918 2019 1
Lake Crabtree County Park, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
September 13, 2019
Phyllonorycter aberrans? empty already. The first mine was on the upper surface, but the other three were on the lower surface--does P. aberrans do both? I forget.

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Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Lespedeza cuneata D1918 2019 1 Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Lespedeza cuneata D1918 2019 2 Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Lespedeza cuneata D1918 2019 3 Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Lespedeza cuneata D1918 2019 4 Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Lespedeza cuneata D1918 2019 5 Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Lespedeza cuneata D1918 2019 6
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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 14 September, 2019 - 10:37pm
Last updated 18 September, 2019 - 9:16am

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
… Charley Eiseman, 18 September, 2019 - 9:16am login or register to post comments

Gracillariidae...
P. aberrans (which will soon be moved to a newly described genus) is only known to make upper surface mines, and I've never seen one with such a long linear portion. I think it's possible that all of these are Caloptilia violacella, which normally makes underside mines but see:

The lower surface ones could also conceivably be Porphyrosela desmodiella.
… Charley Eiseman, 15 September, 2019 - 7:15pm login or register to post comments

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