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Stigmella obliquella

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Stigmella obliquella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species:
S. obliquella
Binomial name
Stigmella obliquella
(Heinemann, 1862)
Synonyms
List
    • Nepticula obliquella Heinemann, 1862
    • Nepticula babylonicae Hartig, 1949
    • Nepticula diversa Glitz, 1872
    • Nepticula wockeella Heinemann, 1871

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

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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

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Eggs

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Laid on either side of a leaf of one of the smooth-leaved willows in May–June or August–September.[1]

Larva

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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, S. babylonica, Salix x sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma', Salix x fragilis, S. pentandra, S. triandra and S. viminalis.[3]

Stigmella obliquella mine

Pupa

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Pupation takes place outside of the mine.

Distribution

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It is found in all of Europe (except the Balkan Peninsula), east to eastern Russia and China.

References

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  1. ^ Emmet, A E (1988). A Field Guide To The Smaller British Lepidoptera (Second ed.). London: British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 24.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Brian Pitkin; Willem Ellis; Colin Plant; Rob Edmunds (12 July 2019). "'Stigmella obliquella' [Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae] in Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects". www.ukflymines.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
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