Macrosaccus uhlerella

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Macrosaccus uhlerella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Macrosaccus
Species:
M. uhlerella
Binomial name
Macrosaccus uhlerella
(Fitch, 1859) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis uhlerellaFitch, 1859
  • Phyllonorycter uhlerella
  • Phyllonorycter amorphae (Frey & Boll, 1878)
  • Phyllonorycter amorphaeella (Chambers, 1877)

Macrosaccus uhlerella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Illinois, Missouri, New York, Colorado and Texas in the United States. [2]

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The wingspan is 6-6.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Amorpha species (including Amorpha fruticosa ) and Robinia species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mature mine is an elongate-oval, whitish blotch located on the underside of the leaf usually near the edge of the leaflet. Eventually, as the mine becomes tentiform, the leaf edge is slightly curled. [3]

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References

  1. Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. "Systematics and biology of the new genus Macrosaccus with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae)". Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2018-01-15. Creative Commons by small.svg  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.