Macrosaccus uhlerella

Macrosaccus uhlerella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Macrosaccus
Species:	M. uhlerella
Binomial name
	Macrosaccus uhlerella; (Fitch, 1859)
Synonyms
	Lithocolletis uhlerella Fitch, 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]

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]

Gallery

Mines on Amorpha fruticosa

References

^ Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner
^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "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.

External links

Phyllonorycter at microleps.org

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[1] Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner

[2] Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[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.

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