Stigmella magdalenae

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Stigmella magdalenae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. magdalenae
Binomial name
Stigmella magdalenae
(Klimesch, 1950)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula magdalenaeKlimesch, 1950

Stigmella magdalenae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Scandinavia and Finland to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria, and from Ireland to central Russia and Ukraine.

Stigmella magdalenae mine Stigmella.magdalenae4.-.lindsey.jpg
Stigmella magdalenae mine

The wingspan is 4–5 mm. Adults are on wing in July.

The larvae feed on Amelanchier ovalis , Amelanchier spicata , Cotoneaster integerrimus , Malus sylvestris , Sorbus aucuparia and Sorbus torminalis . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow corridor. It sometimes follows the leaf margin for a while, more often it is found along a major vein. The frass is concentrated in a narrow, regularly interrupted central line.


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