Stigmella alikurokoi

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Stigmella alikurokoi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. alikurokoi
Binomial name
Stigmella alikurokoi
Kemperman & Wilkinson, 1985

Stigmella alikurokoi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from Kyushu in Japan.

There are three generations or more per year.

The larvae feed on Rubus buergeri , Rubus phoenicolasius and Rubus palmatus var. coptophyllus . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a linear, long and slender gallery on the upper surface of the leaf. It sometimes runs along the leaf margin and the mid rib. It is greenish brown to brown with a dark brown central line of frass.


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