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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 » Leucospilapteryx » Leucospilapteryx venustella - Hodges#0698 (Leucospilapteryx venustella)

Species Leucospilapteryx venustella - Hodges#0698

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Leaf mine - Leucospilapteryx venustella moth - Leucospilapteryx venustella Cut-leaf Coneflower Leaf Miner [Leucospilapteryx venustella?] ID Request - Leucospilapteryx venustella Leucospilapteryx venustella Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Bidens bipinnata D1160 2018 1 - Leucospilapteryx venustella St. Andrews leaf miner on Ambrosia artemisiifolia SA1395 Parectopa 2018 1 - Leucospilapteryx venustella Boone leaf miner on Ageratina altissima D2676 2020 1.1 - Leucospilapteryx venustella Leucospilapteryx venustella
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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 Leucospilapteryx
Species venustella (Leucospilapteryx venustella - Hodges#0698)
Hodges Number
0698
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Leucospilapteryx venustella (Clemens)
Orig. Comb: Gracilaria venustella Clemens, 1860
Numbers
the only species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps
Identification
The dorsal margin is white/pale in the basal half, as seen in this reared individual:

This feature is not present in any of the reared specimens of Acrocercops astericola uploaded to BugGuide.
An undescribed species in an undescribed genus is similar to L. venusta, but in the single example available for comparison, the forewing ground color is paler and the front and middle tibiae are pure white (unmarked):
Range
e US - Map (MPG)
Remarks
page creation based on identification of this image by Terry Harrison
See Also
Acrocercops astericola
Print References
Clemens & Stainton, H. T, 1872. The Tineina of North America, by (the late) Dr. Brackenridge Clemens. (Being a collected edition of his writings on that group of insects.) With notes by the editor, H.T. Stainton, F.R.S., Sec.Ls. p. 92, 216
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - MPG
pinned adult and live larva image plus photos of larval damage to leaves (Terry Harrison, Illinois, microleps.org)
Images at BOLD
live adult image by David Reed (butterfliesandmoths.org)
presence in Ontario; list (NHIC; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)
author, date, and original genus (nearctica.com)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 13 April, 2009 - 5:57am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Mike Quinn, Ron M., ceiseman
Last updated 18 August, 2017 - 10:33am

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