Stigmella dryadella

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Stigmella dryadella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. dryadella
Binomial name
Stigmella dryadella
(O. Hofmann, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula dryadellaO. Hofmann, 1868

Stigmella dryadella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees and Italy, and from Ireland to Romania.

The wingspan is 4.5-5.5 mm. The greyish-brown antennae are just over half the forewing length. The forewings have a basal greenish sheen , either side of the silvery transverse band they are brown with a purple sheen. The hindwings are grey. [1] [2]

The larvae feed on Dryas octopetala . They mine the leaves of their host plant. [3]

References

  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. lepiforum.de includes images PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. 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.