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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Glaucolepis » Glaucolepis saccharella - Hodges#0059 (Glaucolepis saccharella)

Species Glaucolepis saccharella - Hodges#0059

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Nepticulidae IMG_1828 - Glaucolepis saccharella Bucculatrix on maple? - Glaucolepis saccharella Dark mine on red maple - Glaucolepis saccharella Sugar Maple mine - Glaucolepis saccharella St. Andrews leaf miner on Acer floridana SA506 Stigmella 2016 2 - Glaucolepis saccharella St. Andrews leaf miner on Acer floridana SA506 Stigmella 2016 3 - Glaucolepis saccharella St. Andrews leaf miner on Acer rubrum SA520 Trifurcula maybe 2016 2 - Glaucolepis saccharella maple leaf mine - Glaucolepis saccharella
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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 Glaucolepis
Species saccharella (Glaucolepis saccharella - Hodges#0059)
Hodges Number
0059
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Nepticula saccharella Braun, 1912 (1)
Trifurcula saccharella (Braun, 1912)
Phylogenetic sequence #160061
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet from the host plant species (Acer saccharum). (1)
Size
Wingspan 4 mm. (1)
Identification
Adult - Basal fourth shining metallic blue, remainder ground color black with large silvery white fascia that broads at the dorsum. (1)
Leaf mine - very long serpentine on underside of leaf. (1), (2)
Range
Records from Ontario to Maine, south the Tennessee and North Carolina. (3)
Food
Larvae are leaf miners of sugar maple (Acer saccharum). (1)
Life Cycle
See Braun (1912) in Print References. (1)
Print References
Braun, A.F. 1912. Notes on the North American species of Nepticula, with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera). The Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 21(3): 97. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Annette Frances Braun (Wikipedia)
Works Cited
1.Notes on the North American species of Nepticula, with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera).
Annette F. Braun. 1912. The Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 21(3): 84-101.
2.Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates
Charley Eiseman & Noah Charney. 2010. Stackpole Books.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 10 January, 2011 - 6:24pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 25 November, 2017 - 5:24pm

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