Stigmella oplismeniella
Stigmella oplismeniella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nepticulidae |
Genus: | Stigmella |
Species: | S. oplismeniella |
Binomial name | |
Stigmella oplismeniella Kemperman & Wilkinson, 1985 | |
Stigmella oplismeniella is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is only known from Kyushu in Japan.
Adult are on wing from mid-May to early June. There is probably one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Oplismenus undulatifolius. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a linear, full depth gallery, which usually runs longitudinally along the leaf margin and then doubles back three or four times. It is semi-transparent, pale green to pale brown, with a longitudinal black frass line in the centre. Later, the frass line becomes more disseminated, sometimes in zigzag arcs.[1]
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