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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillarioidea) » Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillariidae) » Lithocolletinae » Phyllonorycter » Acer-feeding species (clemensella, lucidicostella, or trinotella) (Phyllonorycter Acer-feeding species (clemensella, lucidicostella, or trinotella)) » Lesser Maple Leaf Blotch Miner - Hodges#0765 (Phyllonorycter lucidicostella)
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Gracillariidae (maple) - Phyllonorycter lucidicostella
Copyright © 2011 MJ Hatfield

Gracillariidae (maple) - Phyllonorycter lucidicostella
Tullamore, Story County, Iowa, USA
Size: 3+ mm
Blotch leaf mining larva collected 19-Sep-2009 on maple leaves. Adults emerged and died before I found them. (My M.O. it seems.) ID confirmed by T. Harrison
Same rearing batch as which is a Cameraria larva.

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Gracillariidae (maple) - Phyllonorycter lucidicostella Gracillariidae, spent pupal case (maple) - Phyllonorycter lucidicostella
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 16 December, 2011 - 12:28pm
Last updated 11 February, 2017 - 7:49pm

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