Stigmella filipendulae: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nepticulidae
Genus
Stigmella
Species
Stigmella filipendulae
Scientific Name
Stigmella filipendulae

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Stigmella filipendulae

Stigmella filipendulae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Alps and the Carpathians, and from Ireland to Poland. There is a disjunct population in Greece.

The wingspan is 3–5 millimetres (0.12–0.20 in). The head is ferruginous to dark fuscous. The antennal eyecaps are yellow-whitish. The forewings are shining golden-brown, sometimes purplish-tinged with a pale golden-metallic vertical fascia beyond middleThe apical area beyond this is dark purple-fuscous. The hindwings grey.

Adults are on wing from July to August and again in September. There are two generations per year.

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Stigmella filipendulae in languages:

Dutch
Spireamineermot
English
Meadowsweet Pigmy
English
Dropwort Pigmy
Finnish
angervokääpiökoi
German
Mädesüß-Zwergminierfalter
Swedish
brudbrödsdvärgmal
Ukrainian
Стигмочка гадючникова

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Stigmella filipendulae
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