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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Trumpet Leafminer Moths (Tischerioidea) » Trumpet Leafminer Moths (Tischeriidae) » Tischeria » Oak Blotch Miner - Hodges#0144 (Tischeria quercitella)

Species Tischeria quercitella - Oak Blotch Miner - Hodges#0144

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited
0144 - - Tischeria quercitella Bur oak leaf mine - Tischeria quercitella Tischeria quercitella Chapel Hill leaf miner on Quercus nigra D234 2015 r1 - Tischeria quercitella St. Andrews leaf miner on Quercus alba SA663 2016 2 - Tischeria quercitella Tischeria quercitella - male Tischeria quercitella Tischeria quercitella
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Tischerioidea (Trumpet Leafminer Moths)
Family Tischeriidae (Trumpet Leafminer Moths)
Genus Tischeria
Species quercitella (Oak Blotch Miner - Hodges#0144)
Hodges Number
0144
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tischeria quercitella Clemens, 1863
Tischeria tinctoriella Chambers, 1875
Phylogenetic Sequence # 230001
Identification
From Microleps.org found here: "Tischeria quercitella (Fig. 1) makes a distinctive upperside blotch mine on oaks of the black oak group. According to Braun (1972), it is the only species of the oak-feeding group that constructs a nidus (the circular, central part of the mine seen in Fig. 1) as a pupal chamber within the mine. In the adult, the patch of blackish scales at the tornus of the forewing is diagnostic for T. quercitella, among Fagaceae-feeding tischeriid species that occur in Illinois."
Genitalia:
Range
widespread in eastern NA (1)(2)(3)
Life Cycle
Constructs a silken nest or nidus that shelters it while is pupates.(4)
Internet References
Wikipedia
Info and Images at Microleps.org
Images at MPG
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.Wikipedia
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
4.Hidden Company that Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips
James B. Nardi. 2023. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by v belov on 25 September, 2009 - 8:19am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Marci Hess, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 26 September, 2023 - 9:19am

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