Cameraria gaultheriella
Cameraria gaultheriella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Cameraria |
Species: | C. gaultheriella
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Binomial name | |
Cameraria gaultheriella (Walsingham, 1889)[1]
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Cameraria gaultheriella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from British Columbia, Canada, and California, Oregon and Maine in the United States.[2][3] It is an adventive species in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, but is not established.
The wingspan is 10–11 mm.
The larvae feed on Gaultheria species, including Gaultheria shallon. 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.
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Categories:
- Cameraria (moth)
- Cameraria (moth) stubs
- Moths of North America
- Lepidoptera of Canada
- Lepidoptera of the United States
- Moths described in 1889
- Leaf miners
- Taxa named by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham