Cameraria corylisella

Cameraria corylisella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Quebec, Canada, and Kentucky, Wisconsin, Maine, New York, Connecticut and Vermont in the United States.[2]

Cameraria corylisella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Cameraria
Species:
C. corylisella
Binomial name
Cameraria corylisella
(Chambers, 1871)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis corylisella Chambers, 1871
  • Cameraria bifasciella Walsingham, 1907
  • Cameraria corylella (Meyrick, 1912)
  • Cameraria coryliella (Chambers, 1871)
  • Cameraria coryliella (Chambers, 1879)

The wingspan is 6.5–7 mm.

The larvae feed on Carpinus americana, Carpinus caroliniana, Corylus species (including Corylus americana) and Ostrya virginica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a nearly circular, brownish-yellow blotch mine on the upperside of the leaf. Larvae hibernate in a silken chamber.

References
  1. Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


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