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A NEPTICULID MOTH FEEDING AT THE LEAF-NECTARIES OF POPLAR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. A. Downes
J. A. Downes
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
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Extract

There seems to be no information about the feeding habits of the adult in Nepticulidae, a family of moths well known as leaf-miners in the larval stage which belong to the primitive section Monotrysia. The following observations seem therefore to be worth recording.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 100 , Issue 10 , October 1968 , pp. 1078 - 1079
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1968

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