Stigmella lemniscella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nepticulidae
- Genus
- Stigmella
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Stigmella lemniscella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stigmella lemniscella
Stigmella lemniscella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe.
The wingspan is 5 to 6 millimetres (0.20 to 0.24 in).The head in male is black, in female orange, collar blackish. The antennal eyecaps whitish. The forewings are shining brownish-golden with a somewhat oblique shining silvery fascia beyond middle, preceded by a brownish-purple suffusion. The apical area beyond this is dark purple-fuscous. The hindwings are dark fuscous.
Adults are on wing from May to August. There are two generations per year.
The larvae feed on Ulmus glabra, Ulmus laevis, Ulmus minor and Ulmus pumila. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Stigmella abachausi
- Stigmella abutilonica
- Stigmella aeriventris
- Stigmella ampullata
- Stigmella angustivalva
- Stigmella anomalella
- Stigmella arbatella
- Stigmella argentifasciella
- Stigmella aurella
- Stigmella azaroli
- Stigmella barbata
- Stigmella belfrageella
- Stigmella betulicola
- Stigmella boehmeriae
- Stigmella caliginosa
- Stigmella celtifoliella
- Stigmella charistis
- Stigmella confinalis
- Stigmella costaricensis
- Stigmella crotonica
- Stigmella divina
- Stigmella dombeyivora
- Stigmella ebbenielseni
- Stigmella epicosma
- Stigmella eurydesma
- Stigmella evanida
- Stigmella ficivora
- Stigmella floslactella
- Stigmella fluida
- Stigmella freyella
- Stigmella galactacma
- Stigmella gallicola
- Stigmella grewiae
- Stigmella gustafssoni
- Stigmella hybnerella
- Stigmella incognitella
- Stigmella ingens
- Stigmella intronia
- Stigmella irrorata
- Stigmella krugeri
- Stigmella kurilensis
- Stigmella lapponica
- Stigmella latifasciella
- Stigmella lemniscella
- Stigmella letabensis
- Stigmella liota
- Stigmella maytenivora
- Stigmella meyi
- Stigmella naibabi
- Stigmella naturnella
- Stigmella nigrata
- Stigmella ogygia
- Stigmella oritis
- Stigmella oxyacanthella
- Stigmella paliurella
- Stigmella panconista
- Stigmella parinarella
- Stigmella perplexa
- Stigmella platyzona
- Stigmella pomivorella
- Stigmella porphyreuta
- Stigmella pretoriata
- Stigmella protosema
- Stigmella prunifoliella
- Stigmella purpurimaculae
- Stigmella quercipulchella
- Stigmella resplendensella
- Stigmella rhamnella
- Stigmella rhomboivora
- Stigmella rhynchosiella
- Stigmella rosaefoliella
- Stigmella ruficapitella
- Stigmella ruwenzoriensis
- Stigmella saginella
- Stigmella salicis
- Stigmella sanguisorbae
- Stigmella scinanella
- Stigmella sclerostyla
- Stigmella sorbi
- Stigmella speciosa
- Stigmella styracicolella
- Stigmella subtrimaculella
- Stigmella tatrica
- Stigmella tiliae
- Stigmella tiliella
- Stigmella ulmivora
- Stigmella ultima
- Stigmella unifasciella
- Stigmella urbica
- Stigmella uwusebi
- Stigmella varii
- Stigmella wollofella
- Stigmella worcesteri
- Stigmella xuthomitra
- Stigmella zelkoviella































































































































































