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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Trumpet Leafminer Moths (Tischerioidea) » Trumpet Leafminer Moths (Tischeriidae) » Coptotriche » Fagaceae-feeding Species (Coptotriche Fagaceae-feeding Species)

Fagaceae-feeding Species

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Oak Leaf Mine ID Request - Coptotriche Sawtooth Oak Leaf Mine ID [=Coptotriche? citrinipennella??] Request - Coptotriche Pennsylvania Moth - Coptotriche purinosella Tischeriidae - Coptotriche - female Trumpet Leafminer Moth - Coptotriche Sedwick Park leaf miner on Quercus pagoda D2798 pupa 2021 2 - Coptotriche citrinipennella Sedwick Park leaf miner on Quercus pagoda D2798 adult 2021 1 - Coptotriche citrinipennella Durant Nature Preserve leaf miner Coptotriche badiiella on Quercus alba D4990 2023 1 - Coptotriche purinosella
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Tischerioidea (Trumpet Leafminer Moths)
Family Tischeriidae (Trumpet Leafminer Moths)
Genus Coptotriche
No Taxon Fagaceae-feeding Species
Remarks
Several essentially identical Coptotriche species mine in leaves of oak and chestnut. One other tischeriid, Tischeria quercitella, also mines in oak leaves. It is externally distinguishable from the eastern oak-feeding Coptotriche species, but looks very similar to the western C. mediostriata.

Tischeria bifurcata, a western Ceanothus feeder, may not be externally distinguishable from some of the oak-feeding Coptotriche species. Therefore, western moths that resemble the ones in this section may not be identifiable past family if they have not been reared from leaf mines.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 21 October, 2011 - 7:03pm
Last updated 1 November, 2011 - 8:34am

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