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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillarioidea) » Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillariidae) » Lithocolletinae » Phyllonorycter » Phyllonorycter olivaeformis - Hodges#0778 (Phyllonorycter olivaeformis)
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Hickory Phyllonorycter - Phyllonorycter olivaeformis
Copyright © 2010 Charley Eiseman

Hickory Phyllonorycter - Phyllonorycter olivaeformis
Oakham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Size: 3 mm
Emerged from a frass-covered cocoon in a mine in a shagbark hickory leaf (the one pictured on p. 347 of (1), which should make this P. caryaealbella or P. olivaeformis. Looks pretty similar to the latter, but I haven't found an image of the former to compare.

The mine was collected on 9/23/2008; the moth probably emerged the following spring (all I know is I photographed it on 5/1/2010).
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 2 May, 2010 - 1:06am
Last updated 27 October, 2018 - 9:25am

Moved
Moved from Phyllonorycter.
… Charley Eiseman, 5 May, 2010 - 5:19am login or register to post comments

Hickory-feeding spp. of Phyllonorycter
Of our two eastern-USA hickory-feeding Phyllonorycter species, this is P. olivaeformis. In P. caryaealbella the basal part of the forewing is white, whereas in P. olivaeformis the basal part of the forewing is concolorous with the rest of the wing and contains a central white line, as seen here (this info comes from Braun's 1908 "Lithocolletis" revision in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society).
… Terry Harrison, 4 May, 2010 - 9:22am login or register to post comments

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