Stigmella lemniscella

Stigmella lemniscella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. lemniscella
Binomial name
Stigmella lemniscella
(Zeller, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Lyonetia lemniscella Zeller, 1839
  • Nepticula marginicolella Stainton, 1853
  • Nepticula suberosella Toll, 1934

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

Stigmella lemniscella mine

The wingspan is 5 to 6 millimetres (0.20 to 0.24 in).The head in male is black, in female orange, collar blackish. The antennal eyecaps whitish. The forewings are shining brownish-golden with a somewhat oblique shining silvery fascia beyond middle, preceded by a brownish-purple suffusion. The apical area beyond this is dark purple-fuscous. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[1] [2][3][4]


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.

References

  1. ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London
  2. ^ lepiforum.de includes imagesPublic Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Emmet, A. M., 1976. Nepticulidae. — In: J. Heath (ed.). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 1: 171—267, pls. 1—7, 11, 12.
  4. ^ Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Nepticulidae (Stigmellidae); in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987


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