Stigmella lemniscella

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Stigmella lemniscella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. lemniscella
Binomial name
Stigmella lemniscella
(Zeller, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Lyonetia lemniscellaZeller, 1839
  • Nepticula marginicolellaStainton, 1853
  • Nepticula suberosellaToll, 1934

Stigmella lemniscella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe.

Stigmella lemniscella mine Stigmella lemniscella.jpg
Stigmella lemniscella mine

The wingspan is 5 to 6 millimetres (0.20 to 0.24 in).The head in male black, in female orange, collar blackish. Antennal eyecaps whitish. Forewings shining brownish-golden ; a somewhat oblique shining silvery fascia beyond middle, preceded by a brownish-purple suffusion, apical area beyond this dark purple-fuscous. Hindwings dark fuscous. [1] Adults are on wing from May to August. There are two generations per year.

The larvae feed on Ulmus glabra , Ulmus laevis , Ulmus minor and Ulmus pumila . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a slender corridor, hardly widened in the end. The corridor often follows the leaf margin for some time. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.

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References

  1. ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London


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