Cameraria aceriella

Cameraria aceriella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Cameraria
Species: C. aceriella
Binomial name
Cameraria aceriella
(Clemens, 1859)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis aceriella Clemens, 1859

The maple leafblotch miner (Cameraria aceriella) is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Quebec, Canada and Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New York and Vermont in the United States.[2]

The wingspan is 8–9 mm. Adults are on wing from the end of May to June.

The larvae feed on Acer species, including Acer rubrum and Acer saccharinum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They mine into the parenchyma, just under the upper surface of the leaf. Later, they wrap silk around part of their mines to pupate. Part of the population overwinters in the larval form inside leaves that have fallen to the ground and pupate the following spring. The other part overwinters as pupae.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. ↑ Insects and diseases of Canada's forests

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