A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (8/26/2015). Verified by Roger Downer/BAMONA.
A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/23/2014).
A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/23/2014).
A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (9/11/2015). Verified by Roger Downer/BAMONA.
A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Harford Co., Maryland (9/8/2019). Verified by Aaron Hunt.
Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) treichard, all rights reserved.
Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) treichard, all rights reserved.
The leaf mines of Morning-glory Leafminer Moth larvae in Baltimore City, Maryland (7/18/2013). Determined by Charley Eiseman/BugGuide.
The leaf mine of a Morning-glory Leafminer Moth larva on Ivy-leaved Morning-glory in Baltimore City, Maryland (9/28/2013).
Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Howard Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) Timothy Reichard, all rights reserved
Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Montgomery Co., Maryland (11/3/2022). (c) Emily Summerbell, some rights reserved (CC BY).
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Larvae make distinctive leaf mines on foliage of bindweeds and morning-glories.
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A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (8/26/2015). Verified by Roger Downer/BAMONA.
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A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/23/2014).
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Timothy Reichard.
A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/23/2014).
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Timothy Reichard.
A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (9/11/2015). Verified by Roger Downer/BAMONA.
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Mark Etheridge.
A Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Harford Co., Maryland (9/8/2019). Verified by Aaron Hunt.
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Dave Webb.
Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) treichard, all rights reserved.
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Timothy Reichard.
Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) treichard, all rights reserved.
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Timothy Reichard.
The leaf mines of Morning-glory Leafminer Moth larvae in Baltimore City, Maryland (7/18/2013). Determined by Charley Eiseman/BugGuide.
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Thomas Wilson.
The leaf mine of a Morning-glory Leafminer Moth larva on Ivy-leaved Morning-glory in Baltimore City, Maryland (9/28/2013).
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Thomas Wilson.
Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Howard Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) Timothy Reichard, all rights reserved
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Morning-glory Leafminer Moth in Montgomery Co., Maryland (11/3/2022). (c) Emily Summerbell, some rights reserved (CC BY).
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Source: Wikipedia
| Sweet potato leaf miner | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Bedelliidae |
| Genus: | Bedellia |
| Species: | B. somnulentella
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| Binomial name | |
| Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)
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| Synonyms | |
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Bedellia somnulentella, the sweet potato leaf miner, is a moth in the family Bedelliidae.
Description
[edit]The wingspan is 8–10 mm.
The larvae feed on Calystegia pubescens, Calystegia sepium, Convolvulus althaeoides, Convolvulus arvensis, Convolvulus siculus, Convolvulus tricolour, Ipomoea batatas and Ipomoea purpurea. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
Distribution
[edit]Originally from Asia, where its food plants are found,[citation needed] it has reached a nearly cosmopolitan distribution and has been recorded from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, southern Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Uzbekistan, nearly all of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Japan, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.
External links
[edit]- A Review of the Lyonetiid Moths (Lepidoptera, Lyonetiidae): II. The Subfamilies Lyonetiinae and Bedelliinae
- bladmineerders.nl
- UKmoths
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