Stigmella montanotropica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nepticulidae |
Genus: | Stigmella |
Species: | S. montanotropica |
Binomial name | |
Stigmella montanotropica Puplesis & Diškus, 2002 | |
Stigmella montanotropica is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in tropical montane forest on the western slopes on the Andes in Ecuador.
The wingspan is 5-5.1 mm for females. Adults have been found from February to early March.
The larvae feed on Acalypha species. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
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The eastern lowland olingo is a species of olingo from South America, where it is known from the lowlands east of the Andes in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela. It is the only olingo species found east of the Andes. The Latin species name honors Joel Asaph Allen, the American zoologist who first described the genus Bassaricyon.
The plate-billed mountain toucan is a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae. It is native to the west slope of Ecuador and extreme southern Colombia, where it lives in the high-altitude humid mountain forests of the Andes.
The crimson-rumped toucanet is a near-passerine bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
Enteucha basidactyla is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found along the south-western coast of Florida in the United States, as well as Dominica, Belize and Ecuador.
Enteucha acuta is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from the lowland Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
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Stigmella nubimontana is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the cloud forest of the high Andes in Ecuador.
Stigmella rubeta is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in tropical montane forest of the western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador.
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Ectoedemia repanda is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the lowland Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
Ectoedemia tabulosa is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the lowland Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
Acalyptris ecuadoriana is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the premontane Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
Acalyptris onorei is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the lowland Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
Acalyptris basihastatus is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the Amazon premontane rainforest in Ecuador.
Acalyptris articulosus is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the Amazon premontane rainforest in Ecuador.
Acalyptris rotundus is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the Amazon premontane rainforest in Ecuador.
Acalyptris amazonius is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in lowland Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
Acalyptris insolentis is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found in premontane and lowland Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
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