Stigmella magdalenae

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Stigmella magdalenae
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Domain: Eukaryota
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.A tiny 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 covered with yellowish-brown or brownish hairs, at the back with a white collar. The body is dark. The forewings are yellowish-grey with a faint bronze sheen, without any pale transverse band. The hind wing is narrow, grey, with long fringes.

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 species has one generation each summer that flies in May-June or July. The caterpillar makes a rather short, narrow sinuous mine.

Certain identification requires microscopic examination of the genitalia.


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