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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Dichomeridinae » Dichomeris » Indented Dichomeris Moth  - Hodges#2297 (Dichomeris inserrata)
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Another kind of goldenrod gall. - Dichomeris inserrata
Copyright © 2009 Beatriz Moisset

Another kind of goldenrod gall. - Dichomeris inserrata
Horsham trail. Horsham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 18, 2009
Size: 6 mm.
The image is not very clear because it was wriggling so much, but perhaps somebody can figure out what the remnant of the other creature is.

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Another kind of goldenrod gall. - Dichomeris inserrata Indented Dichomeris pupa in goldenrod gall. - Dichomeris inserrata Another kind of goldenrod gall. - Dichomeris inserrata More goldenrod fauna; is it a leaftier? - Dichomeris inserrata
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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 18 July, 2009 - 5:25pm
Last updated 9 March, 2019 - 9:48am

Moved
Moved from Dichomeris.
See comments under the adult image.
… Beatriz Moisset, 22 July, 2009 - 5:47am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Beatriz Moisset, 21 July, 2009 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Pupae and Cocoons.
… Beatriz Moisset, 21 July, 2009 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

what comes to me is somethin
What comes to me is something Charley taught me last week. I had a little ichnemon coccon and it hatched, so I stuck it in the refer to cool it to take a picture. When I posted the picture it was a parasite of a parasite which had emerged. or as Charley put it, "Parasitoid: So this is a parasitoid of the campoplegine ichneumonid that made the cocoon. A caterpillar-killer-killer"
is what he said, and thats my guess..... altho it would be a gall maker killer.
… Edna Woodward, 18 July, 2009 - 6:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Terminology
A true parasite doesn't normally kill its host, so something that feeds like a parasite but kills its host is called a parasitoid. A parasite of a parasite is called a hyperparasite. A parasitoid of a parasitoid is a hyperparasitoid.

In this case, though, it's none of the above: exuvia is just the term for the shed exoskeleton of an arthropod- the remnant next to the pupa is just what the caterpillar was wearing before it became a pupa
… Chuck Entz, 18 July, 2009 - 11:21pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Gall Midges. Lepidoptera pupa plus exuvia of last instar of caterpillar.
… Matthias Buck, 18 July, 2009 - 5:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
I have so much to learn! With a lot of luck I might get to see the adult.
… Beatriz Moisset, 18 July, 2009 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

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