Cameraria corylisella

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Cameraria corylisella
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Cameraria
Species:
C. corylisella
Binomial name
Cameraria corylisella
(Chambers, 1871)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis corylisella Chambers, 1871
  • Cameraria bifasciella Walsingham, 1907
  • Cameraria corylella (Meyrick, 1912)
  • Cameraria coryliella (Chambers, 1871)
  • Cameraria coryliella (Chambers, 1879)

Cameraria corylisella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec in Canada, and Kentucky, Wisconsin, Maine, New York, Connecticut and Vermont in the United States.[2][3]

The wingspan is 6.5–7 mm.

The larvae feed on , Carpinus caroliniana, Corylus species (including Corylus americana) and . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a nearly circular, brownish-yellow blotch mine on the upperside of the leaf. Larvae hibernate in a silken chamber.

References[]

  1. ^ Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Gregory R. Pohl; Jean-François Landry; Christian Schmidt; et al. (2018). Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Series Faunistica. 118. ISBN 978-954-642-909-4. ISSN 1312-0174. Wikidata Q97158808.


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