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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Ectoedemia » populella group (Ectoedemia populella group) » Poplar Petiole Gall Moth - Hodges#0052 (Ectoedemia populella)

Species Ectoedemia populella - Poplar Petiole Gall Moth - Hodges#0052

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Pemphigus populicaulis? - Ectoedemia populella

gall on quaking aspen - Ectoedemia populella

Poplar Petiole Gall Moth? - Ectoedemia populella

Round petiole gall on Populus sp. - Ectoedemia populella

Puparia from unidentifed species - Ectoedemia populella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Nepticuloidea (Pygmy Leafmining Moths)

Family Nepticulidae

Genus Ectoedemia

No Taxon (populella group)

Species populella (Poplar Petiole Gall Moth - Hodges#0052)

Hodges Number

0052

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ectoedemia populella Busck, 1907 (1)

* phylogenetic sequence #001425

Explanation of Names

Named for the host plant genus (Populus).

Size

Larva to 8 mm. (1)

Wingspan 7-8.5 mm. (2)

Range

Manitoba, Ontario, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Ohio. (3)

Food

Larvae induce galls in the leaf petioles of Populus spp.. (1)

Print References

Busck, A. 1907. New American Tineina. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 8(3-4): 98-99 (1)

Wilkinson, C. & P.J. Newton 1981. The micro-lepidopteran genus Ectoedemia Busck (Nepticulidae) in North America. Tijdschrift voor entomologie 124(2-3): 41-43 (3)

Internet References

Nepticulidae of the World

Wikipedia

Works Cited

1.	New American Tineina August Busck. 1907. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 8: 86-99.

2.	Nepticulidae of North America. Annette F. Braun. 1917. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 43: 155-209.

3.	The Micro-Lepidopteran genus of Ectoedemia (Busck) Nepticulidae in North America Christopher Wilkinson, P. J. Newton . 1981. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 124: 27-92.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 29 December, 2010 - 1:19pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Randy Hardy
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 1:17pm

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