Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


Previous events


TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Cameraria hamameliella - Hodges#0824

Witch Hazel leaf minerX - Cameraria hamameliella Pennsylvania Moth - Cameraria hamameliella Leaf Miner - Cameraria hamameliella Blowing Rock Leaf miner on Hammamelis virginiana BL26 2016 1 - Cameraria hamameliella Blowing Rock Leaf miner on Hammamelis virginiana BL26 2016 3 - Cameraria hamameliella Hamamelis virginiana - Cameraria hamameliella? - Cameraria hamameliella mine in witch hazel - Cameraria hamameliella Cameraria hamameliella
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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 Cameraria
Species hamameliella (Cameraria hamameliella - Hodges#0824)
Hodges Number
0824
Explanation of Names
Author: Busck, 1903
Size
Wingspread 6mm(1)
Identification
Young larvae are tiny, flat, and taper toward the read.(1)
Full grown larvae are cylindrical and about 5mm long(1)
Range
Eastern US and southeastern Canada(1)
Food
Various oaks(1)
Life Cycle
Overwinter as larva in leaves on the ground.(1)
Several generations per year.(1)
Remarks
Larvae develop in blotch mines in leaves of witch hazel (Hamamelis).
Works Cited
1.Eastern Forest Insects
Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.