Stigmella quercipulchella

Stigmella quercipulchella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Stigmella
Species:	S. quercipulchella
Binomial name
	Stigmella quercipulchella; (Chambers, 1878)
Synonyms
	Nepticula quercipulchella Chambers, in Hayden, 1878; Nepticula terminella Braun, 1914;

Stigmella quercipulchella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in North America in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ontario.

There are two generations per year.

The larvae feed on Quercus species, including Q. palustris, Q. marilandica and Q. rubra. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

External links

Nepticulidae of North America
Newton, Philip J.; Wilkinson, Christopher (1982). "A taxonomic revision of the North American species of Stigmella (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae)". Systematic Entomology. 7 (4): 367–463. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1982.tb00455.x.
Stonis, Jonas R.; Diškus, Arūnas; Remeikis, Andrius; Navickaitė, Asta; Rocienė, Agnė (2013). "Description of new species of oak leaf-miners (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae), with notes on the species groups of Stigmella Schrank associated with Quercus as a host-plant". Zootaxa. 3737 (3): 201–22. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3737.3.1. PMID 25112750.
Stonis, Jonas R.; Diškus, Arūnas; Remeikis, Andrius; Schuster, Jack (2013). "First discovery of Quercus feeding Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) in Central America". Zootaxa. 3737: 1–23. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3737.1.1. PMID 25112733.

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