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Species Phyllonorycter blancardella - Spotted Tentiform Leafminer Moth - Hodges#0740

Representative Images

A Phyllonorycter sp. - Phyllonorycter blancardella 0740 Phyllonorycter blancardella - Phyllonorycter blancardella 0740 Phyllonorycter blancardella - Phyllonorycter blancardella Phyllonorycter blancardella Spotted Tentiform Leafminer - Phyllonorycter blancardella Phyllonorycter blancardella - male Spotted Tentiform Leafminer Moth - Phyllonorycter blancardella Spotted Tentiform Leafminer Moth - Phyllonorycter blancardella
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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 Lithocolletinae
Genus Phyllonorycter
No Taxon (Rosaceae-feeding species)
Species blancardella (Spotted Tentiform Leafminer Moth - Hodges#0740)

Hodges Number

0740

Range

Introduced from Europe. Now found in most of the midwestern and northeastern US and eastern Canada (1).

Remarks

Larvae develop in blotch mines on the undersides of apple and crabapple leaves (1).

See Also

Indistinguishable from two other Rosaceae-feeding Phyllonorycter species without dissection.

Internet References

Species page at Moth Photographers Group
Arthropod-plant Interactions. Hypermetamorphosis in a leaf-miner allows insects to cope with a confined nutritional space

Works Cited

1.Garden Insects of North America : The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs (Princeton Field Guides)
Whitney Cranshaw. 2004. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by tom murray on 23 May, 2009 - 10:44pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman
Last updated 4 November, 2015 - 3:29pm

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