Cameraria ostryarella

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

Cameraria ostryarella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Infraorder:
Heteroneura
Family:
Gracillariidae
Genus:
Cameraria
Species:
C. ostryarella
Binomial name
Cameraria ostryarella
(Chambers, 1871)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis ostryarella Chambers, 1871
  • Cameraria ostryaeella (Chambers, 1871)
  • Cameraria ostryella (Meyrick, 1912)

The wingspan is 6–7 mm.

The larvae feed on Ostrya species, including Ostrya virginiana and Ostrya virginica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a blotch mine on the upperside of the leaf. As many as four or five may occur in one mine. The hibernating larvae pass the winter in circular silken-lined chambers, the outline appearing on the upper epidermis as a circular narrow ridge.

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


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