Stigmella obliquella
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nepticulidae |
Genus: | Stigmella |
Species: | S. obliquella
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Binomial name | |
Stigmella obliquella (Heinemann, 1862)
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Stigmella obliquella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae which feeds on willow (Salix species) and can be found in Asia and Europe. It was first described by Hermann von Heinemann in 1862.
Description
[edit]The wingspan is 4.6–6 mm. The head is orange, the collar yellow-white. Antennal eyecaps yellow-white. Forewings are coarse, dark brown basal to the yellowish cross fascia, apex black. Hindwings grey. Adults are on wing from April to May and again in August.
Life cycle
[edit]Eggs
[edit]Laid on either side of a leaf of one of the smooth-leaved willows in May–June or August–September.[1]
Larva
[edit]The larva is amber-yellow with a brown head and has a faint chain of pear-shaped dark ventral spots.[2]
The larvae feed on Salix alba, S. babylonica, Salix x sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma', Salix x fragilis, S. pentandra, S. triandra and S. viminalis.[3]
Pupa
[edit]Pupation takes place outside of the mine.
Distribution
[edit]It is found in all of Europe (except the Balkan Peninsula), east to eastern Russia and China.
References
[edit]- ^ Emmet, A E (1988). A Field Guide To The Smaller British Lepidoptera (Second ed.). London: British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 24.
- ^ Emmet, A M (1983). Heath, John (ed.). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 1. Colchester: Harley Books. p. 229. ISBN 0-946589-15-1.
- ^ Brian Pitkin; Willem Ellis; Colin Plant; Rob Edmunds (12 July 2019). "'Stigmella obliquella' [Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae] in Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects". www.ukflymines.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
External links
[edit]- Stigmella obliquella at UKMoths
- Swedish moths
- Plant Parasites of Europe
- Stigmella obliquella images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Nepticulidae from the Volga and Ural region