Phyllonorycter celtisella (Chambers, 1871)

Eiseman, Charles S. & Davis, Donald R., 2020, Wrong side of the leaf: assigning some Lithocolletinae species (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) to their proper genera, Zootaxa 4751 (2), pp. 201-237 : 213-215

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7692DE47-FE0C-47CA-BF74-10302592AC5F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3718105

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B05A87DF-A928-FF86-07CE-F9D3CD16FC71

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Phyllonorycter celtisella (Chambers, 1871)
status

 

Phyllonorycter celtisella (Chambers, 1871) View in CoL ( Figs. 30–32 View FIGURES 30–32 )

L.[ithocolletis] celtisella Chambers 1871c: 129 .

Phyllonorycter celtisella (Chambers) View in CoL — Davis 1983: 10.

Leaf mine. Chambers (1871c) stated that the mine ( Figs. 30–31 View FIGURES 30–32 ) begins as a short, narrow, crooked line on the underside of the leaf, ending in a blotch that presents the same appearance on both sides of the leaf, i.e. slightly puckered along the center. Braun (1908) clarified that while the early linear portion is on the lower surface, the larva “then cuts through the parenchyma to the upper side, where the mine broadens into an elongate blotch, made tentlike by a longitudinal ridge in each epidermis.” The larva then eats “the entire parenchyma, leaving merely the dark discolored cuticles of the leaf.”

Hosts. Cannabaceae : Celtis laevigata Willd. , C. occidentalis L.

Distribution. Canada: ON; USA: CT, IA, IL, KY, MA, NC, OH, OK, TX.

Review. Chambers (1871c) described this species from specimens reared from Celtis occidentalis in Kentucky. Braun (1908) stated that the range of Phyllonorycter celtisella “is wide, and probably coincides with that of its food plant.” Specific records include Texas ( Frey & Boll 1876, as Lithocolletis pusillifoliella ), Ohio ( Ely 1917), Ontario ( Yoshimoto 1977), Illinois ( Godfrey et al. 1987), and Connecticut ( Maier & Davis 1989).

CSE has reared this species from a C. occidentalis mine collected in the Loess Hills, Monona Co., Iowa ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 30–32 ), and has examined mines from the same host collected by M.W. Palmer in Payne Co., Oklahoma, and from C. laevigata collected by T.S. Feldman in Scotland Co., North Carolina. S. Whitebread (in litt.) reports having reared P. celtisella from mines collected in Massachusetts (Hingham, Plymouth Co.), and notes that adult emergence may be from either the upper or the lower leaf surface.

Comments. In Connecticut, Maier & Davis (1989) reared adults of Phyllonorycter celtisella from mines collected on 13 June, 17 August, 23 September, and 19 October, but they did not report the emergence dates. A mine CSE collected in Ottawa, Ontario on 11 July yielded an adult on 16 July, and the Iowa and Massachusetts specimens emerged in spring from mines collected on 17 September and 27 October, respectively. Thus, in the northern part of its range, occupied mines of P. celtisella can be found in every month from June to October; two generations have been confirmed, but there are possibly more. We are not aware of earlier dates for larvae in southern states, but the Texas specimen was caught in Dallas in mid-April ( Frey & Boll 1876). In Illinois, Godfrey et al. (1987) did not cite any observations of larvae but listed adult collection dates ranging from 30 April to 28 August.

Phyllonorycter celtifoliella (Chambers) also feeds on Celtis in eastern North America, but it makes a typical underside tentiform mine. This species is much less common than P. celtisella according to Chambers (1871c) and Braun (1908), although the reverse is true in the vicinity of Charleston, Coles Co., Illinois (T. Harrison in litt.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gracillariidae

Genus

Phyllonorycter

Loc

Phyllonorycter celtisella (Chambers, 1871)

Eiseman, Charles S. & Davis, Donald R. 2020
2020
Loc

Phyllonorycter celtisella (Chambers)

Davis, D. R. 1983: 10
1983
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF