Stigmella atricapitella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nepticulidae |
Genus: | Stigmella |
Species: | S. atricapitella |
Binomial name | |
Stigmella atricapitella (Haworth, 1828) | |
Synonyms | |
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Stigmella atricapitella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Scandinavia to Ireland, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Greece and Ukraine. It is also present in the Near East. It also occurs on Madeira, where it is most likely an introduced species.
The wingspan is 4.5–5.7 mm (0.18–0.22 in). The head is black, ferruginous to orange, or sometimes mixed, collar is often whitish. Antennal eyecaps white. Forewings rather shining bronze, with an apex suffused with purple. Hindwings grey. [1] Adults are on wing from May to June and again from July to August. There are two generations per year.
The larvae feed on Quercus cerris , Quercus petraea , Quercus pubescens , Quercus pyrenaica and Quercus robur . They mine the leaves of their host plant.
Stigmella ruficapitella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in northern and central Europe. It is mostly absent in the Mediterranean region, with the exception of Mount Olympus in Greece and Trieste. It has recently been recorded from Russia and Bosnia.
Stigmella basiguttella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in all of Europe, except Ireland and Iceland. It is also found in south-west Asia up to northern Iran. It has recently been recorded from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Tunisia.
Stigmella cocciferae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Greece to Turkey and Israel.
Stigmella fasciata is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Slovenia, Croatia, Greece and Turkey.
Stigmella suberivora is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread in the western Mediterranean region, where it is found in Portugal, Spain, southern France, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, the Adriatic coast in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. It is also found in North Africa, including Algeria and Tunisia. It is an introduced and established species in southern England. Records of leafmines in Mallorca are probably also this species.
Stigmella ilicifoliella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread in Portugal and Spain. In France, it is known from old specimens along the Atlantic coast near Bordeaux and in the Hérault and the Côte d’Azur near Cannes.
Stigmella kasyi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from eastern Afghanistan.
Stigmella macrolepidella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in mainland Greece, Rhodes, Turkey and possibly Haifa in Israel.
Stigmella svenssoni is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread, but localised in the northern half of Europe, with records from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, the Netherlands, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary and France. There are two isolated records from northern Italy and northern Greece. Only leafmines are recorded from Ireland.
Stigmella szoecsiella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Hungary, Italy, Greece and Turkey.
Stigmella zangherii is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread in south-eastern Europe and Turkey, in the north to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in the west a single specimen was recorded from south-eastern France. There are further records from eastern Austria, Hungary, mainland Italy, Sicily, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey.
Stigmella dorsiguttella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread but very local in central, eastern and southern Europe and south-western Asia. It has been recorded from south-eastern Sweden, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Ukraine, Greece and Turkey.
Stigmella trojana is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in northern Greece and Turkey.
Stigmella bicuspidata is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from three widely separate localities in Turkey.
Stigmella karsholti is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from northern Tunisia in the extensive oak forests near Ain Draham.
Stigmella samiatella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found throughout Europe and south-western Asia. It has recently been recorded from Georgia and Russia.
Stigmella roborella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found throughout Europe and in south-west Asia. In Europe, it has been recorded from nearly every country, except Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Ireland, Moldova, Portugal, Romania and Yugoslavia. It has recently been recorded from Georgia, Macedonia and Turkey.
Stigmella eberhardi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread in the Mediterranean region, north to southern central Europe. It has been recorded from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, south-eastern France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sardinia, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey.
Stigmella quercipulchella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in North America in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ontario.
Stigmella variella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the United States in California and Arizona.