Stigmella catharticella
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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. catharticella
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| Binomial name | |
| Stigmella catharticella (Stainton, 1853)
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Stigmella catharticella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria, and from Ireland to Russia.
The wingspan is 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in). The antennae are filamentous, dark and almost as long as the forewing. The innermost, greatly expanded joint is white. The head is yellow-haired, the body dark, but with two white patches of hair on the "neck". The forewings are grey, covered with strikingly coarse scales that have darker tips so that the wing appears slightly speckled. They are a white spot at the trailing edge just inside the back corner. The hind wing is narrow, grey, with long fringes. Meyrick - The head is ferruginous-orange, collar whitish. Antennal eyecaps whitish. Posterior tarsi whitish, spotted with dark fuscous. Forewings are dark fuscous, faintly purple -tinged ; a roundish white tornal spot; outer half of cilia white. Hindwings grey.[1] Adults are on wing from May to June and again from July to September.
The larvae feed on Rhamnus catharticus and is found where this shrub grows, for example by salt meadows.. They mine the leaves of their host plant, the mine forming hairpin turns in the leaf. Often there is more than one caterpillar in one leaf.. The species has two generations each year, the adult butterflies fly in May-June and July-August, respectively.
References
[edit]Content in this edit is translated from the existing Norwegian Wikipedia article at no:Stigmella catharticella; see its history for attribution.
- ^ 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
External links
[edit]- Fauna Europaea
- bladmineerders.nl Archived 2012-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Swedish moths
- Norfolk moths
- Stigmella catharticella images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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