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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) » Ornixolinae » Micrurapteryx » Willow Leafblotch Miner - Hodges#0647 (Micrurapteryx salicifoliella)

Species Micrurapteryx salicifoliella - Willow Leafblotch Miner - Hodges#0647

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Ornixolinae
Genus Micrurapteryx
Species salicifoliella (Willow Leafblotch Miner - Hodges#0647)
Hodges Number
0647
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Micrurapteryx salicifoliella (Chambers, 1872)
Gracilaria salicifoliella Chambers, 1872
Explanation of Names
salicifoliella - Latin for 'willow leaf small' (1)
Numbers
1 Nearctic sp. (2) (rest are in Asia)
Size
9 mm (MPG)
Identification

Range
CA plus scattered records across N. Amer. - Map (MPG)
Season
mostly Jul-Oct (MPG)
Food
Ten species of willows were infested [in Alaska], severity of which differed somewhat between localities and species (Furniss et al. 2001)
See Also
Micrurapteryx occulta has more white strigulae along the costal margin (Don Davis in email to C. Eiseman).
Print References
Chambers, V.T. 1872. Microlepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist. 4: 25.
Furniss, M.E., E.H. Holsten, M.J. Foote, & M. Bertram. 2001. Biology of a Willow Leaf Blotch Miner, Micrurapteryx salicifoliella, (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in Alaska. Environmental Entomology, 30(4): 736-741.
Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, Moths of Western North America, Pl. 3.14f; p. 54. (3)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)
California Moth Specimens Database
Microleps.org
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
3.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 28 December, 2008 - 5:51pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, urtica, Tony-2, Ron M., ceiseman
Last updated 2 November, 2018 - 7:31pm

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