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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) » Acrocercopinae » Acrocercops » Acrocercops astericola - Hodges#0692 (Acrocercops astericola)

Species Acrocercops astericola - Hodges#0692

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References

Short mine in a broad leaf - Acrocercops astericola

Gracillariidae, Leaf Blotch Miner, leaf mine on heart-leaved aster - Acrocercops astericola

Unid Leafminer WWsn6 - Acrocercops astericola

Gracillariidae, leaf mines - Acrocercops astericola

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Gracillarioidea (Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths)

Family Gracillariidae (Leaf Blotch Miner Moths)

Subfamily Acrocercopinae

Genus Acrocercops

Species astericola (Acrocercops astericola - Hodges#0692)

Hodges Number

0692

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acrocercops astericola Ely, 1917

Parectopa astericola

Gracilaria astericola Frey, H. & Boll, J, 1873

According to Don Davis (email to C. Eiseman, Oct. 2016), this species is misplaced in Acrocercops but its correct placement is not yet clear.

Explanation of Names

Latin for "aster dweller", after the host plant.

Identification

None of the reared specimens uploaded to BugGuide have the basal half of the dorsal margin entirely white/pale, as is the case with Leucospilapteryx venustella.

For comparison, here is L. venustella:

Another, undescribed moth has similar markings to L. venustella:

Food

Leaf miners on asters

See Also

Leucospilapteryx venustella

Print References

Frey, H. & Boll, J, 1873. Nordamerikanische Tineen. Entomologische Zeitung. 34: 204

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcoding Life

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 24 June, 2008 - 7:21pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Ron M., Vox Sciurorum, ceiseman, marcie oconnor
Last updated 18 October, 2017 - 7:49am

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