Stigmella hemargyrella
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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. hemargyrella |
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| Stigmella hemargyrella (Kollar, 1832) | |
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Stigmella hemargyrella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe, except Iceland, Norway, Finland, Portugal and most of the Baltic region.
The wingspan is 5–6 mm. The head is light ochreous-yellowish. The antennal eyecaps are whitish. The forewings are deep shining bronzy with a golden-tinged silvery-metallic hardly oblique fascia at 2/3.The apical area beyond this is dark purple-fuscous. The cilia round apex beyond a blackish median line are white. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[1][2][3]
The moths (imago) are bivoltine flying from April to May and again from July to August and can be found resting on trunks.[4] The egg can be laid on either side of the leaf and the pale yellowish-white larva feed, within a mine on Fagus sylvatica and Fagus sylvatica orientalis. The mine is a sinuous gallery and at the early state is relatively narrow with a central line of dark frass. As the larva grow the mine becomes wider and in the middle portion the frass is arranged in a series of arcs or coils. The mine can cross the vein (compare Stigmella tityrella which rarely crosses the veins) and in the final stages of the mine the frass is more irregular and concentrated in the centre of the gallery.[4][5]
References
- ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Emmet, A M (1988). A Field Guide To The Smaller British Lepidoptera (Second ed.). London: The British Entomological and Natural History Society. p. 65.
- ^ Kimber, Ian. "Stigmella hemargyrella". ukmoths. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
External links
- bladmineerders.nl Archived 2012-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
- UKmoths
- Fauna Europaea
- Swedish moths
- Stigmella hemargyrella images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Media related to Stigmella hemargyrella at Wikimedia Commons
