Stigmella vimineticola

Stigmella vimineticola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. vimineticola
Binomial name
Stigmella vimineticola
(Frey, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula vimineticola Frey, 1856

Stigmella vimineticola is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Norway to Spain and Italy, and from France to Slovakia.[1]

Damage caused by the larvae mining a leaf.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Salix eleagnos and Salix incana. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine they produce resembles the mine of Stigmella obliquella.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Stigmella vimineticola (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae)". www2.nrm.se. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Nepticuloidea". nepticuloidea4.myspecies.info. Retrieved 19 December 2016.


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