Cameraria aceriella

Cameraria aceriella, maple leafblotch miner, is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Quebec and Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New York, and Vermont in the United States.[2][3]

Maple leafblotch miner
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Cameraria
Species:
C. aceriella
Binomial name
Cameraria aceriella
(Clemens, 1859)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis aceriella Clemens, 1859

The wingspan is 7–9 mm.[1] Adults are on wing from the end of May to June.

The larvae feed on Acer species, including Acer rubrum and Acer saccharinum.[1] They mine the leaves of their host plant. They mine into the parenchyma, just under the upper surface of the leaf. Later, they wrap silk around part of their mines to pupate. Part of the population overwinters in the larval form inside leaves that have fallen to the ground and pupate the following spring. The other part overwinters as pupae.[4]

This species was first described by American entomologist James Brackenridge Clemens in 1859.[3]

References
  1. Annette Frances Braun (1908), Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner, Philadelphia: s. n.], doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.17825, OL 14038649M, Wikidata Q51425053
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. Gregory R. Pohl; Jean-François Landry; Christian Schmidt; et al. (2018). Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska. ISBN 978-954-642-909-4. ISSN 1312-0174. OL 32898597M. Wikidata Q97158808. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  4. "Insects and diseases of Canada's forests". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-11-21.


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