Stigmella corylifoliella

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Stigmella corylifoliella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. corylifoliella
Binomial name
Stigmella corylifoliella
(Clemens, 1861)
Synonyms
List
    • Nepticula corylifoliellaClemens, 1862
    • Nepticula virginiellaClemens, 1862
    • Nepticula minimellaChambers, 1873 (not Nepticula minimella(Rebel, 1926))
    • Nepticula opulifoliellaBraun, 1914
    • Nepticula paludicolaBraun, 1917
    • Nepticula exasperataBraun, 1930

Stigmella corylifoliella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae, described by the American entomologist, James Brackenridge Clemens in 1861. It is found in North America in Ohio, New Jersey, Maine, Michigan, Kentucky, California, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, Ontario, New Brunswick, Quebec and British Columbia.

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Mine

The wingspan is 3.5 mm.

The larvae are leaf miners, feeding on a wide range of plants, including Vaccinium , Corylus (including Corylus americana ), Opulaster , Betula , Gaylussacia , Hamamelis virginiana and Alnus rugosa var. americana. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

The Hodges number of this moth is 0092. [1]

References

  1. ↑ "Species Stigmella corylifoliella - Hodges#0092 - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2020-04-27.


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