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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) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker Moths (Bucculatricidae) » Bucculatrix » Section IV (oak and birch family leafminers) (Bucculatrix Section IV (oak and birch family leafminers))
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California black oak - Bucculatrix
Copyright © 2012 R. Berg

California black oak - Bucculatrix
Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, California, USA
October 3, 2012
Detail of upper side of leaf.

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Contributed by R. Berg on 9 October, 2012 - 12:40pm
Last updated 28 January, 2016 - 12:03pm

Moved
Moved from Bucculatrix.
… Charley Eiseman, 28 January, 2016 - 12:03pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
I think this is a Bucculatrix mine, after staring at mines on oaks all day... this was pretty short, only a centimeter or so, right?
… Charley Eiseman, 28 October, 2012 - 1:57am login or register to post comments

 
It must have been
The mine is 1 cm long (from tip to tip, not total length along its curves) in the photo of the whole leaf, which is bigger, if anything, than the actual leaf was.
… R. Berg, 28 October, 2012 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

 
Very good
I have no reservations about calling it Bucculatrix then. No idea what made the brown frass-ish deposit though.
… Charley Eiseman, 28 October, 2012 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Leaf mine
This appears to be a Stigmella mine; if so, it's unrelated to the skeletonizing damage. It might actually (maybe more likely) be the mine of a first-instar Bucculatrix larva; these do skeletonize leaves in later instars, but as far as I know they all chew in little patches, not trails, and I'm not aware of any that eat holes all the way through the leaves like this.
… Charley Eiseman, 12 October, 2012 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

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