Stigmella myrtillella
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Stigmella |
| Species: | S. myrtillella
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| Stigmella myrtillella (Stainton, 1857)
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Stigmella myrtillella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria, and from Ireland to Ukraine.
The wingspan is 5,4-6,3 mm. The head is ferruginous-yellowish, the collar paler. The antennal eyecaps are whitish. The forewings are dark fuscous, faintly purple-tinged with a rather oblique somewhat shining whitish fascia beyond middle. The outer half of cilia ochreous-white. The hindwings are light grey.[1][2][3][4]
Adults are on wing in May and June.
The larvae feed on Vaccinium myrtillus and Vaccinium uliginosum. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
References
[edit]- ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London
- ^ lepiforum.de includes images
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
External links
[edit]- Fauna Europaea
- bladmineerders.nl
- Swedish moths
- Stigmella myrtillella images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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