Stigmella scintillans: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nepticulidae
- Genus
- Stigmella
- Species
- Stigmella scintillans
- Scientific Name
- Stigmella scintillans
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stigmella scintillans
Stigmella scintillans is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in North America in Ohio, Michigan and Ontario.
There are usually two generations per year. Second-generation larvae are found in July and early August. These normally overwinter. At times, a third generation occurs, with larvae in late August.
The larvae feed on Crataegus species, including Crataegus mollis. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
...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