Paraleucoptera albella
Lyonetiidae images
(Salicaceae) in early July (central Illinois). After the larva finishes feeding, it leaves the mine and seeks out a depressed notch (usually at the midvein of a leaf) where it pupates in a white silken cocoon that is overlaid with two transverse bands of silk.
Figure 1.
Paraleucoptera albella
. Adult, reared from leaf mine on cottonwood,
Populus deltoides
(Salicaceae).
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