Stigmella dryadella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nepticulidae
- Genus
- Stigmella
- Species
- Stigmella dryadella
- Scientific Name
- Stigmella dryadella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stigmella dryadella
Stigmella dryadella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees and Italy, and from Ireland to Romania.
The wingspan is 4.5-5.5 mm. The greyish-brown antennae are just over half the forewing length. The forewings have a basal greenish sheen, either side of the silvery transverse band they are brown with a purple sheen. The hindwings are grey.
The larvae feed on Dryas octopetala. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
...Stigmella dryadella in languages:
- English
- Mountain-avens Pigmy
- German
- Alpen-Zwergminierfalter
- Swedish
- fjällsippedvärgmal