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Macrosaccus morrisella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gracillariidae
Genus:
Macrosaccus
Species:
M. morrisella
Binomial name
Macrosaccus morrisella
(Fitch, 1859)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis morrisella Fitch, 1859
  • Phyllonorycter morrisella
  • Phyllonorycter amphicarpaeella (Dyar, 1903)
  • Phyllonorycter amphicarpeaeella (Chambers, 1877)
  • Phyllonorycter texanella (Zeller, 1875)

The hog peanut moth (Macrosaccus morrisella) is a moth of the Gracillariidae family.[2] In North America it is known from Manitoba and Ontario south and west to Texas and Colorado.

The wingspan is 6–7 mm.

The larvae feed on Amphicarpaea bracteata and Strophostyles leiosperma. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine begins as an elongate serpentine track on the underside of the leaflet. This enlarges to an elongate-oval, whitish blotch which eventually becomes strongly tentiform.[3]

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)
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