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Horse-chestnut Leafminer

Cameraria ohridella

12,504 observations in the source records

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27 photos

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 11,733, February 8,666, March 13,578, April 21,361, May 30,799, June 33,584, July 35,938, August 30,906, September 22,691, October 16,937, November 9,255, December 7,234.
United States242,681
Alaska242,681
United Kingdom2,575
England2,424
Germany1,089
Russia691
Ukraine657
France401
Austria394
Poland385

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilyLeaf Blotch Miner Moths · Gracillariidae
GenusCameraria

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Horse-chestnut Leafminer with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.