| Stigmella glutinosae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Stigmella |
| Species: | S. glutinosae |
| Binomial name | |
| Stigmella glutinosae (Stainton, 1858) | |
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Stigmella glutinosae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in all of Europe (except Iceland, Spain and the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula). [1]
The wingspan is 4.4–5.2 millimetres (0.17–0.20 in).A small, dark bronze-coloured moth. The antennae are filamentous, dark and about half as long as the forewing. The innermost, greatly expanded joint is white. The head is yellow-haired, the body dark except for a white "collar" just behind the head. The forewings are glistening, dark bronze-brown with a rather narrow, silvery-white transverse band at about two-thirds of the wing. The hind wing is narrow, grey, with long fringes. The species is very similar to several other Stigmella species, but the white collar can be a good characteristic of this species.To be certain requires microscopic examination of the genitalia. [2] Meyrick - The head is ochreous-yellowish or orange, collar yellow -whitish. Antennal eyecaps yellow whitish. Forewings bronze-fuscous, sometimes purplish-tinged a narrow whitish fascia beyond middle; apical area beyond this dark purplish-fuscous. Hindwings light grey. [3] [4]
Adults are on wing in May. There are two generations per year.
The larvae feed on Alnus glutinosa , Alnus cordata , Alnus incana , Alnus subcordata and Alnus viridis . They mine the leaves of their host plant. [5] [6]
