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Unidentified Leaf Mines

Duke Campus leaf miner on Cirsium D636 2017 1 St. Andrews leaf miner on Ambrosia artemisiifolia SA1400 2018 3 Green Cay leaf miner maybe on Salvia coccinea D1641 2019 3 Durham leaf miner on Erechtites hieracifolius D3040 2021 2 Haw River and I64 leaf miner on Poaceae unknown 2021 3.1 Natural History Museum leaf miner on Portulaca oleracea D4795 2023 2 Sweetwater wetland leaf miner Eugaurax on Sagittaria lancifolia D4794 2023 1 Durant Nature Preserve leaf miner Calycomyza solidaginis maybe on Solidago species D4970 2023 1
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
No Taxon (Unidentified Tracks, Sign, and Other Mysteries)
No Taxon Unidentified Leaf Mines
Remarks
This section is the home of unidentified leaf mines, which may have been made by the larvae of moths, flies, beetles, or sawflies. Knowing the host plant is extremely helpful, and in most cases essential, to identifying the miner.
Print References
(1)(2)(3)
Internet References
Great information and images of Illinois moth mines at microleps.org
Mines of British Flies and Other Insects (not North American, but much of the information is transferable)
Leafminers and plant galls of Europe (ditto)
BugTracks (Charley Eiseman's blog posts about leafminers)
How to rear leafminers
Works Cited
1.Leafminers of North America
Charley Eiseman. 2018.
2.Leaf-mining Insects
Needham, James G., Stuart W. Frost, and Beatrice H. Tothill. 1928. The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore.
3.Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates
Charley Eiseman & Noah Charney. 2010. Stackpole Books.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 29 March, 2006 - 1:43pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 7 April, 2018 - 9:33am

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