Stigmella obliquella
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| Genus: | Stigmella
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| Species: | S. obliquella
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| Stigmella obliquella (Heinemann, 1862)
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Stigmella obliquella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae which feeds on willow (Salix species) and can be found in Asia and Europe. It was first described by Hermann von Heinemann in 1862.
Description[]
The wingspan is 4.6–6 mm. The head is orange, the collar yellow-white. Antennal eyecaps yellow-white. Forewings are coarse, dark brown basal to the yellowish cross fascia, apex black. Hindwings grey. Adults are on wing from April to May and again in August.
Life cycle[]
Eggs[]
Laid on either side of a leaf of one of the smooth-leaved willows in May–June or August–September.[1]
Larva[]
The larva is amber-yellow with a brown head and has a faint chain of pear-shaped dark ventral spots.[2]
The larvae feed on Salix alba, Salix babylonica, Salix x chrysocoma, Salix fragilis, Salix pentandra, Salix triandra and Salix viminalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant feeding inside a widening corridor. Its course is variable, but generally it contains several long nearly straight segments.
Pupa[]
Pupation takes place outside of the mine.
Distribution[]
It is found in all of Europe (except the Balkan Peninsula), east to eastern Russia and China.
References[]
- ^ Emmet, A E (1988). A Field Guide To The Smaller British Lepidoptera (Second ed.). London: British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 24.
- ^ Emmet, A M (1983). Heath, John (ed.). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 1. Colchester: Harley Books. p. 229. ISBN 0 946589 15 1.
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- Stigmella obliquella at UKMoths
- Swedish moths
- Plant Parasites of Europe
- Stigmella obliquella images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Nepticulidae from the Volga and Ural region
- Nepticulidae
- Leaf miners
- Moths described in 1862
- Moths of Asia
- Moths of Europe
- Taxa named by Hermann von Heinemann
- Stigmella stubs