Host Plants

Abstract: The North American species of Rhopobota Lederer (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Eucosmini) are reviewed. All feed as larvae on hollies (Aquifoliaceae: Ilex Tourn. ex L.). The Holarctic species R. naevana (Hübner), which feeds on evergreen and deciduous hollies as well as ericaceous and other plants, overwinters as eggs and apparently never feeds as a leafminer. Rhopobota dietziana (Kearfott) s. str. is an external leaf feeder on various deciduous and evergreen hollies, overwintering as pupae, while R.

Abstract: We discuss 46 species of North American leaf-mining leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Megalopodidae), plus one external feeder observed to spin its cocoon within the leaf mine of another insect. For each species, we review previous records of larval and adult hosts and associated hymenopteran parasitoids, augmenting these with our own observations, including the first accounts of oviposition and larval habits for many species. We present the first rearing records for 12 of these species: Anisostena californica Van Dyke, A.

The latest research into leaf-mining weevils.

Abstract: Leafmining in early instars is newly reported for three species of tortricid moths in the eastern USA. Argyrotaenia amatana (Dyar) was reared from leaf-tying larvae found in association with recently vacated mines on Chiococca alba (L.) Hitchc. (Rubiaceae) in Florida. Aterpia approximana (Heinrich) was reared from a larva mining in Samolus parviflorus Raf. (Primulaceae) in North Carolina, a new host and distribution record, and larvae were found in New England in similar mines on Lysimachia ciliata L., a known host for this moth.

New larval host records for three species of leaf-mining weevils in the eastern USA

Abstract: Leafmining in early instars is newly reported for three species of tortricid moths in the eastern USA. Argyrotaenia amatana (Dyar) was reared from leaf-tying larvae found in association with recently vacated mines on Chiococca alba (L.) Hitchc. (Rubiaceae) in Florida. Aterpia approximana (Heinrich) was reared from a larva mining in Samolus parviflorus Raf. (Primulaceae) in North Carolina, a new host and distribution record, and larvae were found in New England in similar mines on Lysimachia ciliata L., a known host for this moth.