Cameraria fletcherella
Cameraria fletcherella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Cameraria |
Species: | C. fletcherella
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Binomial name | |
Cameraria fletcherella (Braun, 1908)[1]
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Cameraria fletcherella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Québec and Ontario in Canada and Illinois and Maine in the United States.[2][3]
The wingspan is 8.5–9 mm.
The larvae feed on Quercus species, including Quercus alba. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a blotch mine on the upperside of the leaf.
References[]
- ^ Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner
- ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)[permanent dead link]
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Cameraria (moth)
- Cameraria (moth) stubs
- Moths described in 1908
- Moths of North America
- Lepidoptera of Canada
- Taxa named by Annette Frances Braun
- Leaf miners
- Lepidoptera of the United States