Tischeriidae
23a0003 –
0168 Tischeria immaculata
Braun, 1915
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Larva and
Host Plants: |
Miner on Ceanothus crassifolius, erroneously identified as Prunus ilicifolia in the original description (Braun, 1972). |
Description/
Field Marks: |
Forewings gray with faint brownish tinge , evenly and finely irrorate (Braun 1972). |
| Similar Species: |
- Tischeria ceanothi Walsingham, 1890 lacks the "minutely and uniformly irrorate aspect of the fore wings [of immaculata]" and is separated by genitalia (Braun 1972).
- Tischeria ambigua Braun, 1915
- Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
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| Synonymy: |
immaculata Braun 1915 (Tischeria); Type locality: Loma Linda, CA |
| Taxonomic Notes: |
Tischeria immaculata Braun, 1915, rev. stat., formerly treated as a synonym of Tischeria ceanothi Walsingham, 1890 in Puplesis & Diškus (2003), is returned to full species status by van Nieukerken & Eiseman in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023). |
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| References |
- Braun, A.F., 1915. Notes on some species of Tischeria, with descriptions of new species (Lep.). Entomological News, 26: 271.
- Braun, A.F., 1972. Tischeriidae of America north of Mexico (Microlepidoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, 28: 89; figs. 54, 99, 145.
- Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order).
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