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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » False Burnet Moths (Urodoidea) » False Burnet Moths (Urodidae) » Wockia » Wockia asperipunctella - Hodges#2415.1 (Wockia asperipunctella)
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Lacy cocoon/shell - Wockia asperipunctella? - Wockia asperipunctella
Copyright © 2011 Seabrooke Leckie

Lacy cocoon/shell - Wockia asperipunctella? - Wockia asperipunctella
Lanark, Ontario, Canada
January 10, 2011
Size: ~7mm
Found about chest-height on a relatively small (~8cm dbh) Trembling Aspen.

Wockia asperipunctella? Guess based on Eiseman & Charney, who state: "The bumelia webworm moth ... spins a delicate, golden cocoon with a very coarse, rectangular mesh ... Wockia asperipunctella, only recently discovered in Ontario, makes a similar cocoon on aspen and willow."

We also have Chain-dotted Geometer here (also mentioned under "Lacy Cocoons"), but I would have expected the cocoon to be larger.
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Contributed by Seabrooke Leckie on 10 January, 2011 - 9:20pm

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Moved from ID Request.
That must be it. I don't think I've ever seen a photo of this cocoon; the passing reference to it in this paper may be the only information I had to go on when I wrote that. Nice find!
… Charley Eiseman, 10 January, 2011 - 9:49pm login or register to post comments

 
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Thanks, Charley. I'd paused to check out a bagworm case, or I might never have noticed it. I thought immediately of the spongillafly cocoon on the front of your book, but when I got back with photos realized it didn't quite match. I'll have to keep a watch for the adult Wockia when I'm mothing this season.
… Seabrooke Leckie, 11 January, 2011 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

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