Stigmella catharticella

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Stigmella catharticella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. catharticella
Binomial name
Stigmella catharticella
(Stainton, 1853)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula catharticellaStainton, 1853

Stigmella catharticella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria, and from Ireland to Russia.

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The wingspan is 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in). The antennae are filamentous, dark and almost as long as the forewing. The innermost, greatly expanded joint is white. The head is yellow-haired, the body dark, but with two white patches of hair on the "neck". The forewings are grey, covered with strikingly coarse scales that have darker tips so that the wing appears slightly speckled. They are a white spot at the trailing edge just inside the back corner. The hind wing is narrow, grey, with long fringes. [1] Meyrick - The head is ferruginous-orange, the collar whitish. The antennal eyecaps are whitish. The posterior tarsi are whitish, spotted with dark fuscous. The forewings are dark fuscous, faintly purple -tinged with a roundish white tornal spot; outer half of cilia white. The hindwings are grey. [2] [3]

Adults are on wing from May to June and again from July to September. [4]

The larvae feed on Rhamnus catharticus and is found where this shrub grows, for example by salt meadows.. They mine the leaves of their host plant, the mine forming hairpin turns in the leaf. Often there is more than one caterpillar in one leaf.. The species has two generations each year, the adult moths fly in May-June and July-August, respectively.

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References

Content in this edit is translated from the existing Norwegian Wikipedia article at no:Stigmella catharticella; see its history for attribution.

  1. ↑ Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Nepticulidae (Stigmellidae); in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987
  2. ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Keys and description
  3. ↑ lepiforum.de includes images PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. ↑ Emmet, A. M., 1976. Nepticulidae. — In: J. Heath (ed.). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 1: 171—267, pls. 1—7, 11, 12.


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