Stigmella myrtillella

Stigmella myrtillella
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. myrtillella
Binomial name
Stigmella myrtillella
(Stainton, 1857)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula myrtillella Stainton, 1857

Stigmella myrtillella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria, and from Ireland to Ukraine.

The wingspan is 5,4-6,3 mm. The head is ferruginous-yellowish, the collar paler. The antennal eyecaps are whitish. The forewings are dark fuscous, faintly purple-tinged with a rather oblique somewhat shining whitish fascia beyond middle. The outer half of cilia ochreous-white. The hindwings are light grey.[1][2][3][4]

Adults are on wing in May and June.

The larvae feed on Vaccinium myrtillus and Vaccinium uliginosum. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London
  2. ^ lepiforum.de includes images This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Nepticulidae (Stigmellidae); in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987


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