Boxelder leafroller | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Caloptilia |
Species: | C. negundella |
Binomial name | |
Caloptilia negundella (Chambers, 1876) | |
Caloptilia negundella (boxelder leafroller) is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Quebec, Canada, and Colorado, Kentucky, New York, California, Maine, Ohio and Vermont in the United States. [1]
The wingspan is about 13 mm. The base colour of the wings is brown with gold and greenish scales. Yellow spots are found on the apex of the forewing. Three black stripes of scales are found on the fringes of the hindwing. The body is brown and the head greenish.
Adults emerge in July and August and are active until winter. They then overwinter until spring to mate.
The larvae feed on Acer negundo . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The first instar larvae make a narrow, linear mine along the underside of the leaflet. The mine crosses to the upperside to form a white spot until emerging. Final instars form a cone from the distal portion of the leaf and pupate inside.
Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.
Caloptilia elongella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from all of Europe east to eastern Russia. It is also found in North America from British Columbia, south to California and east in the north to New Hampshire and New York.
Caloptilia octopunctata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia.
Caloptilia cecidophora is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan and Taiwan.
Caloptilia magnoliae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū in Japan and from Korea.
Gracillaria albicapitata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū in Japan and the Russian Far East.
Gracillaria japonica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the island of Honshu, the main island of Japan.
Caloptilia sapiivora is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikoku in Japan.
Epicephala relictella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the Russian Far East, China and Korea.
Caloptilia alnivorella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the Russian Far East, Canada and the United States.
Caloptilia belfragella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Quebec and the United States.
Caloptilia blandella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Canada (Québec) the United States.
Caloptilia selenitis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from New Zealand.
Caloptilia sebastianiella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Florida, United States.
The sassafras caloptilia moth is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Canada and the United States.
Caloptilia populiella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from British Columbia, Canada, and Colorado, United States.
Micrurapteryx occulta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is recorded from across North America in the northern half of the continent, in Canada from the Maritime Provinces to British Columbia, north to northernmost Yukon. In the United States it has been found in Connecticut, Kentucky, Illinois, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. The habitat consists of meadows, the edge of forests, open ponderosa pine forests, alpine meadows, the sea shore, and probably other habitats, from sea level to high elevations in the mountains, where suitable hosts occur.
Guttigera schefflerella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in Japan.
Spinivalva is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae. It contains only one species, Spinivalva gaucha, which is found in Brazil.
Telamoptilia grewiae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in China (Tianjin).
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