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Scientific Name:
Common Name:
Family (Alpha):
ACROLEPIIDAE-
ADELIDAE-
AMPHISBATIDAE-
AUTOSTICHIDAE-
BATRACHEDRIDAE-
BEDELLIIDAE-
BLASTOBASIDAE-
BOMBYCIDAE-
BUCCULATRICIDAE-
CARPOSINIDAE-
CHOREUTIDAE-
COLEOPHORIDAE-
COSMOPTERIGIDAE-
COSSIDAE-
CRAMBIDAE-
DEPRESSARIIDAE-
DREPANIDAE-
ELACHISTIDAE-
EPERMENIIDAE-
EPIPYROPIDAE-
EREBIDAE-Erebid Moths
ERIOCRANIIDAE-
EUTELIIDAE-
GALACTICIDAE-
GELECHIIDAE-
GEOMETRIDAE-
GLYPHIDOCERIDAE-
GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE-
GRACILLARIIDAE-
HELIOZELIDAE-
HEPIALIDAE-
HYBLAEIDAE-
INCURVARIIDAE-
LASIOCAMPIDAE-
LECITHOCERIDAE-Long-horned Moths
LIMACODIDAE-
LYONETIIDAE-
MEGALOPYGIDAE-Flannel Moths
MICROPTERIGIDAE-
MIMALLONIDAE-
MOMPHIDAE-Mompha Moths
NEPTICULIDAE-
NOCTUIDAE-Owlet Moths
NOLIDAE-
NOTODONTIDAE-
OECOPHORIDAE-
OPOSTEGIDAE-
PELEOPODIDAE-
PLUTELLIDAE-
PRODOXIDAE-
PSYCHIDAE-Bagworm Moths
PTEROPHORIDAE-
PYRALIDAE-
SATURNIIDAE-Saturniids
SCHRECKENSTEINIIDAE-
SESIIDAE-
SPHINGIDAE-Sphinx Moths
THYATIRIDAE-
THYRIDIDAE-
TINEIDAE-
TISCHERIIDAE-
TORTRICIDAE-
URANIIDAE-
URODIDAE-
XYLORYCTIDAE-
YPONOMEUTIDAE-
YPSOLOPHIDAE-
ZYGAENIDAE-
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Nepticulidae Members:
Acalyptris thoracealbella
Acalyptris unidentified species
Anacampsis rhoifructella-consonella complex
Ectoedemia clemensella
Ectoedemia nyssaefoliella
Ectoedemia platanella
Ectoedemia quadrinotata
Ectoedemia rubifoliella
Ectoedemia similella
Ectoedemia trinotata
Ectoedemia ulmella
Ectoedemia unidentified species
Ectoedemia virgulae
Etainia unidentified
Fomoria hypericella
Fomoria pteliaeella
Glaucolepis saccharella
Nepticulidae
Stigmella apicialbella
Stigmella argentifasciella
Stigmella caryaefoliella
Stigmella castaneaefoliella
Stigmella corylifoliella
Stigmella fuscotibiella
Stigmella intermedia
Stigmella juglandifoliella
Stigmella macrocarpae
Stigmella myricafoliella
Stigmella nigriverticella
Stigmella procrastinella
Stigmella prunifoliella
Stigmella quercipulchella
Stigmella rhamnicola
Stigmella rhoifoliella
Stigmella rosaefoliella
Stigmella saginella
Stigmella sclerostylota
Stigmella tiliella
Stigmella unidentified species
Stigmella villosella
Zimmermannia bosquella
Zimmermannia mesoloba
Zimmermannia obrutella
Zimmermannia unidentified species
Fomoria
Members:
Fomoria hypericella
Fomoria pteliaeella
3 NC Records
Fomoria hypericella
(Braun, 1925) - No Common Name
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A linear slightly widening mine with a dark frass trail on Hypericum hypericoides. The larva forms a narrow, convoluted upper surface mine that gradually widens. Note how the frass tends to become more scattered as the larva matures.
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A linear slightly widening mine with a dark frass trail on Hypericum hypericoides. The larva forms a narrow, convoluted upper surface mine that gradually widens. Note how the frass tends to become more scattered as the larva matures. The light green area at the end of the frass trail (center of leaf) is where the larva is feeding.
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A linear widening mine with a dark frass trail on Hypericum hypericoides. The light gray oval structure (partially encircled by the thin frass line near the leaf tip) is a cocoon.
Taxonomy
Superfamily:
Nepticuloidea
Family:
Nepticulidae
P3 Number:
160064.00
MONA Number:
61.00
Comments:
Fomoria
is a small genus of leaf-mining micromoths with four described species from North America.
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions:
Online Photographs:
MPG
,
BugGuide
,
GBIF
,
BOLD
Technical Description, Adults:
Braun, 1925
Technical Description, Immature Stages:
Braun, 1925; Eiseman, 2019.
Adult Markings:
The following description of the adults is from Braun (1925). The tuft on the head is reddish orange, and sometimes has a few brown scales on the vertex. The eye-cap is silvery or pale golden and often shades to dark brown outwardly. The antenna stalk is dark fuscous. The collar is blackish, with a few brownish ocherous scales that are especially evident on the dorsum. The forewing is bluish black and densely irrorate. The scales are pale blue at the base, and shade to black beyond the base. The cilia on the forewing are gray and palest around the apex. The hindwing and cilia are gray. The legs are bluish black, and the tarsi paler gray. Characters that are useful in identifying this species include the dark forewing that lacks whitish marks or fasciae, the orange tuft, and the dark collar between the head and thorax.
Wingspan:
4-5 mm (Braun, 1925).
Adult ID Requirements:
Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.
Immatures and Development:
Females lay eggs on the lower leaf surface adjacent to the midrib. The larva produces a long, linear, and rather convoluted upper-surface mine that gradually increases to a width of 2-3 mm. The mine may take on a blotchy appearance at the end. The dark, granular frass is initially deposited in a continuous narrow central line, but becomes more scattered with time. Just prior to pupation, the larva cuts a semicircular slit in the lower leaf surface. It then either spins a bright brownish cocoon that is placed at or near the slit, or exits the leaf and spins a cocoon externally (Braun, 1925; Eiseman, 2019).
Larvae ID Requirements:
Identifiable from good quality photos, especially where associated with known host plants.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution:
Fomoria hypericella
is broadly distributed throughout the eastern US where the host plants occur locally. Populations have been found as far north as Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. From there, they occur southward to Mississippi and Alabama, and westward to Ohio and Oklahoma (Eiseman, 2019). As of 2019, our only county record is from the Piedmont.
County Map:
Clicking on a county returns the records for the species in that county.
Flight Dates:
High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
Piedmont (Pd)
Coastal Plain (CP)
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