Opuntia Leaf Miner

Marmara opuntiella

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae

Marmara opuntiella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Texas in the United States and from Mexico. There are records of similar larvae with identical habits from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Peru and Venezuela, and these may also refer to this species.

Distribution

Opuntia Leaf Miner — (c) Luke Padon, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Luke Padon · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 65Mexico · 10Brazil · 1

Sources and credits

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