Stigmella minusculella

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Stigmella minusculella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. minusculella
Binomial name
Stigmella minusculella
(Herrich-Schaffer, 1855)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula minusculella Herrich-Schaffer, 1855
  • Nepticula chalybeia Braun, 1914
  • Nepticula embonella Klimesch, 1978
  • Stigmella chalybeia (Braun, 1914)

Stigmella minusculella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Denmark and Latvia to the Pyrenees, Corsica, Italy and Crete, and from Great Britain to Ukraine. It is also present in North America, where it is found in Ohio, New Jersey and Ontario.

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Mine
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Mined pieces of pear leaves
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Larva

The wingspan is 5–6 mm. There are two to three generations per year.

The larvae feed on Pyrus amygdaliformis, Pyrus communis, Pyrus elaeagrifolia and Pyrus spinosa. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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