locust leafminer, Odontota dorsalis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) - 1627049

locust leafminer
Odontota dorsalis (Thunberg, 1805)

Descriptor: Damage
Description: The mines of their larvae seen here on the right are sometimes responsible for turning entire black locust trees brown in mid-summer. The adults are pests as well. Their feeding damage to black locust is pictured here on the left.
Image type: Laboratory
Image location: United States

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Name: John A. Weidhass
Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Country: United States

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Image uploaded on Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Image Information last updated on Thursday, November 04, 2010