Stigmella minusculella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nepticulidae
- Genus
- Stigmella
- Species
- Stigmella minusculella
- Scientific Name
- Stigmella minusculella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stigmella minusculella
Stigmella minusculella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Denmark and Latvia to the Pyrenees, Corsica, Italy and Crete, and from Great Britain to Ukraine. It is also present in North America, where it is found in Ohio, New Jersey and Ontario.
The wingspan is 5–6 mm. There are two to three generations per year.
The larvae feed on Pyrus amygdaliformis, Pyrus communis, Pyrus elaeagrifolia and Pyrus spinosa. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
...Stigmella minusculella in languages:
- Dutch
- Minuscule perenmineermot
- English
- Brown-tipped Pigmy
- Swedish
- bronsdvärgmal
- Ukrainian
- Стигмочка бурокінчикова
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Stigmella amelanchierella
- Stigmella aurora
- Stigmella crataegella
- Stigmella crataegi
- Stigmella crataegifoliella
- Stigmella desperatella
- Stigmella hahniella
- Stigmella heteromelis
- Stigmella magdalenae
- Stigmella micromelis
- Stigmella minusculella
- Stigmella nostrata
- Stigmella nylandriella
- Stigmella oxyacanthella
- Stigmella purpuratella
- Stigmella pyri
- Stigmella regiella
- Stigmella scintillans
- Stigmella stettinensis
- Stigmella torminalis