Sumac leafblotch miner
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. rhoifoliella
Binomial name
Caloptilia rhoifoliella
(Chambers, 1876)
Synonyms
  • Gracillaria rhoifoliella Chambers, 1876

Caloptilia rhoifoliella (sumac leafblotch miner) is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Bermuda, Canada (including Manitoba, Québec and Ontario), and the United States (including Mississippi, New York, Kentucky, California, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Texas, Vermont, North Carolina, Illinois, Kansas and Louisiana).[1]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. Adults are on wing in September, November, March and April in Florida and in May in Texas.

The larvae feed on Rhus species (including Rhus copallina, Rhus lanceolata, Rhus toxicodendron and Rhus typhina), Schinus terebinthifolia, Toxicodendron pubescens and Toxicodendron radicans. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a linear mine at either side of the leaf. It later becomes a tentiform mine and at the end the larva rather clumsily rolls the leaf downward from the tip.

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