Cremastobombycia solidaginis

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Cremastobombycia solidaginis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Cremastobombycia
Species:
C. solidaginis
Binomial name
Cremastobombycia solidaginis
(Frey & Boll, 1876) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis solidaginisFrey & Boll, 1876
  • Cremastobombycia solidaginiaEly, 1918
  • Cremastobombycia solidaginisella(Chambers, 1880)

Cremastobombycia solidaginis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and Florida, Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Michigan in the United States. [2] [3]

Mine and cocoon Cremastobombycia solidaginis mine and cocoon.JPG
Mine and cocoon

The wingspan is 7–9 mm.

The larvae feed on Baccharis pilularis and Solidago species, including Solidago altissima , Solidago bicolor , Solidago caesia , Solidago canadensis , Solidago fistulosa , Solidago gigantea , Solidago patula and Solidago rugosa . They mine the leaves of their host plant by digging an elongated, wrinkled "mine" on the underside of the leaf. Pupation takes place within a dense white cocoon, marked with longitudinal ridges. It is suspended hammock-like within the mine, by a single silken thread at the anterior end and by two diverging threads at the posterior end. When the imago emerges the pupa case is thrust through the upper epidermis.

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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. Vol. 118. ISBN   978-954-642-909-4. ISSN   1312-0174. OL   32898597M. Wikidata   Q97158808.


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