Stigmella vimineticola

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Stigmella vimineticola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. vimineticola
Binomial name
Stigmella vimineticola
(Frey, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula vimineticolaFrey, 1856

Stigmella vimineticola is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Norway to Spain and Italy, and from France to Slovakia. [1]

Damage caused by the larvae mining a leaf. Stigmella vimineticola BE-MK-7551a.jpg
Damage caused by the larvae mining a leaf.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Salix eleagnos and Salix incana . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine they produce resembles the mine of Stigmella obliquella . [2]

References

  1. "Stigmella vimineticola (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae)". www2.nrm.se. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  2. "Nepticuloidea". nepticuloidea4.myspecies.info. Retrieved 19 December 2016.