Minutissimi tinea

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Familia Nepticulidae quosdam de minima notum tinea, 3-8mm alae usque ad alae alterius summitatem vndique a tip-. Enim est mens et a simili quod supra duas tineas: amnicarum maxima – Coscinocera hercules qui prope ad tips in statera 9 inches, et de minima (sic ut vegrandis parum Hercules festucam infra tinea) – Ectoedemia rubifoliella, sequitur etiam effigiatum. Et quod mirum est, sunt diversa Nepticulidae, cum super 800 de quibus probabile est quod species repraesentat solam 10% ipsa diversitas (Powell, 2009). In Iunctus Civitas solum habemus 80 species, cuius 25 nota sunt, ab occidente. Si conferas ad diversitatem 100 vel ex specie notam Rome, suus 'patet quod scientia est valde deest in US. Lorem ipsum, super 80% omnium nepticulid diversitatem Europa, notum est a solo. Mirum est inversio neotropicis Puta cum variis mundi usque modo oecosystematis 74 Nepticulidae species cogniti! (Puplesis, 2000). Cur autem hoc ita est?

Ectoedemia rubifoliella 3.3mm

Stigmella ostryaefoliella 3.1mm

Europaea pro diversitate facile explicari possunt auferre debitum ad excelsum retrahitur terebravisse Lepidopterists. De variis Holarctic fauna et ideo non est factum optime intelligitur in planeta, ut alia habuerint longam seriem generosum entomologists saecula. Diversitas autem reliquum manet mysterio propter identitatem Nepticulidae, vere Parva, durum est diffusivum, et difficile ad recognoscendas, qualis adultis,! Ego actu vel parum prospere usu insurgente Nepticulidae, et super unam esse specimen Doctori. Dave Wagner. Id ego admodum pauci, et veniam habere in collection simpliciter expansum un-; et satis dura etiam fibulae probat cum lapsu manus abluere potest tota specimen. Videtur optima est ad ornatum et pulsare eos suspenderet, dum vivunt in mauris. Non admodum humanissime, id autem unum consilium a tinea ut manipulare cantur ante oculos ac fieri. Illi adulti sunt gerant, larvae sunt, quae non sunt, quae maxime propria virentibus foliis in quibusdam fodinis, – vescantur material Inter folium epidermises. Hoc nomine mutuans “folium ornatum fodinis” quia vos can animadverto translucent in petrosa, tineis, fodiuntur’ ab intus procedunt, et folium. Non solum autem, sed quaelibet eorum species-specifica host, sed proprium tendere ad hoc ipsum intra exemplaria folium meum. Et si tu scis et species mea planta folium, potes enim casus in illa specie Nepticulid (non tamen sunt omni folio et metalla nepticulids, Sunt multi qui hoc etiam aliorum). Haec sunt etiam potius simplex rusticarum tinea, Quantulum est pop folium universi, et expecta tinea perficere pascentium in sacculo. Unum indiget nisi unum folium eruca (aut folium section of vegrandis) – sed cura capiendum virens folium ut dum pascitur eruca. Si autem mortuus fuerit folium, sic eruca. Propter hoc cuniculos paradoxa posse cognoscere, non adipiscing turpis elit sit mirum quantum in eis, praesertim cum pauci fruges pose minatur ad commercial. Primum infra imago, ipsa claro quidem in eruca: folium pascens – et vestigia reliquerit ea frass.

Stigmella aceris (link to imago credit)

Stigmella paradoxum (link to imago credit)

If you look at the above images of mines it’s not all that difficult to imagine structures like this fossilizing. And amazingly, they have! The first image below (Labandeira et al., 1994) shows a variety of leaf mining Nepticulidae mines (and a Gracillariidae) from the mid-Cretaceous (97 decies annis ago). The spectacular thing about leaf mines is that you can get down to genus level and sometimes even species. The authors were able to differentiate between the nepticulid genera Stig Mella et Ectoedemia based on the patterns preserved in the fossils; patterns we still use to help separate genera today. The bottom illustration is from a mine discovered in Japan that is only around 8 million years old (Kuroko, 1987).

(Labanderia, 1994)

(Kuroko, 1987)

References

Kuroko, H. (1987). A Fossil Leaf Mine of Nepticulidae (Noctuidae) from Japan. Bulletin Sugadaira Montane Res. Cen., No.8, 119-121.

Labandeira, C. (1994). Nonaginta septem annos Angiosperm-Million Insect Association: Meaning of indagari in Paleobiological Coevolución Edita Consilio Et Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum, 91 (25), 12278-12282 DOI': 10.1073/pnas.91.25.12278

PUPLESIS, R., Orbis, A., ROBINSON, G., & COELUM, G. (2002). Et A review of the Poaceae Genus Nepticulidae (Noctuidae) The Journal of Natural History Museum. Series Entomology, 71 (01) DOI': 10.1017/S0968045402000032

Powell, J.A., Opler, P.A. (2010). Noctuidae Western North America – by J. A. Powell et P. A. Opler Nomina Systematica Entomology, 35 (2), 347-347 DOI': 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00525.x

7 animadversionibus, ad minimum tinea

  • Gunnar

    Interesting!
    Dabo illis in tempore suo, incipit a Vade critters. Sicut dipterist specialiter in Psychodidae, in Nepticulids’ parendum est, quod te plerumque leviter super magnitudine cooperante. I suspect that I can make the transition rather rapidly if I just modify my current methods slightly

    • Happy to encourage someone to start working with leps! I think the scales on the microleps are more sensitive than would be on a Psychodidae, but I do know how delicate those wings are on the flies so they might not be that far apart after all.

  • Larry Turner

    There are numerous Nepticuliids in Monterey County, California, from the following families (Hactenus!) Sumac,Barberry,Birch,Pea,Beech,Walnut,
    Mallow,Sycamore,Knotweed,Buckthorn,Rose,Willow. Some plants have more than one species. Rosa californica has an Ectoedemia and two Stigmellas. Interesting, pretty moths.

  • Ordo Equitum Solis,
    I am making a video about microlepidoptera moths for school. Vellem Microlepidoptera comparari uti imaginem video ingens Herculem Coscinocera facimus. Quid, obsecro, utere?

    Aliquam,
    Cesar

  • Ordo Equitum Solis,
    Tibi gratias agimus quod oriri nos faciat uteris pictura elit nexum cum factum.
    gratias,
    Cesar