Stigmella cathepostis

Stigmella cathepostis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. cathepostis
Binomial name
Stigmella cathepostis
Kemperman & Wilkinson, 1985

Stigmella cathepostis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from Kyushu in Japan and the Russian Far East (Primorskiy Kray).

There might be up to three generations per year.

The larvae feed on Carpinus tschonoskii. They mine the leaves of their host plant.


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