Macrosaccus morrisella

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

Macrosaccus morrisella (hog peanut moth) is a moth of the family Gracillariidae.[2][3] In North America it is known from Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, south and west to Texas and Colorado.[4][5]

The wingspan is 6–7 mm.

The larvae feed on Amphicarpaea bracteata, Strophostyles leiosperma, and soybean (Glycine max).[6][5] 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.[5]

References

  1. ^ Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. ^ Fitch, Asa; Comstock, Anna Botsford; Say, Thomas; New York State Agricultural Society. (1856). Reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of New York. Made to the State agricultural society, pursuant to an annual appropriation for this purpose from the legislature of the state. Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, printer [etc.] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.140731.
  4. ^ Gregory R. Pohl; Jean-François Landry; Christian Schmidt; et al. (2018). Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Series Faunistica. Vol. 118. ISBN 978-954-642-909-4. OL 32898597M. Wikidata Q97158808.
  5. ^ a b c Donald R Davis; Jurate De Prins (13 May 2011). "Systematics and biology of the new genus Macrosaccus with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae)". ZooKeys. 98 (98): 29–82. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.98.925. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3095132. PMID 21594070. Wikidata Q21127871.
  6. ^ Robert L Koch; Joseph Moisan-De Serres; Arthur V Ribeiro (1 January 2021). "First Reports of Macrosaccus morrisella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) Feeding on Soybean, Glycine max (Fabales: Fabaceae)". Journal of integrated pest management. 12 (1). doi:10.1093/JIPM/PMAB038. ISSN 2155-7470. Wikidata Q110218641.


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