Stigmella watti: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nepticulidae
- Genus
- Stigmella
- Species
- Stigmella watti
- Scientific Name
- Stigmella watti
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stigmella watti
Stigmella watti is a species of moth in the family Nepticulidae. This species was first described in 1989 by Hans Donner and Christopher Wilkinson. It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Fiordland, Southland and on Stewart Island. The larvae feed on Olearia colensoi νar. grandis (now known as Macrolearia lyallii) and possibly Olearia oporina by mining the leaves of those plants. Larvae have been observed in May while adults are on the wing in February. S. watti was named in honour of Morris N. Watt.
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Sibling Taxa
- Stigmella aigialeia
- Stigmella aliena
- Stigmella atrata
- Stigmella cassiniae
- Stigmella childi
- Stigmella cypracma
- Stigmella erysibodea
- Stigmella fulva
- Stigmella hakekeae
- Stigmella hamishella
- Stigmella hoheriae
- Stigmella ilsea
- Stigmella insignis
- Stigmella kaimanua
- Stigmella laquaeorum
- Stigmella lucida
- Stigmella maoriella
- Stigmella ogygia
- Stigmella oriastra
- Stigmella palaga
- Stigmella platina
- Stigmella progama
- Stigmella progonopis
- Stigmella propalaea
- Stigmella sophorae
- Stigmella tricentra
- Stigmella watti