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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

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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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