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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Stigmella » sanguisorbae group (Stigmella sanguisorbae group) » Stigmella rosaefoliella - Hodges#0078 (Stigmella rosaefoliella)

Species Stigmella rosaefoliella - Hodges#0078

mine on Rosa multiflora - Stigmella? - Stigmella rosaefoliella

Mines on Rosa multiflora - Stigmella rosaefoliella

S. rosaefoliella ex Rosa multiflora - Stigmella rosaefoliella

Alligator River leaf miner on Rosa palustris D3970 2022 3 - Stigmella rosaefoliella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Nepticuloidea (Pygmy Leafmining Moths)

Family Nepticulidae

Genus Stigmella

No Taxon (sanguisorbae group)

Species rosaefoliella (Stigmella rosaefoliella - Hodges#0078)

Hodges Number

0078

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Stigmella rosaefoliella (Clemens, 1861)

Nepticula rosaefoliella Clemens, 1861

Identification

"The larva is lemon-yellow; head and spot on the middle of the second segment pale brown" (1).

Food

Larvae mine on Rosa species.

Life Cycle

"The mine is very serpentine, frequently running around the edge of the leaf including its teeth, moderately broad, nearly filled with a broad blackish-brown frass line, the grains of which are dispersed or have a wavy arrangement, in the later part of the mine. In the early portion, the tract is filled with the excrement of the larva" (1).

Print References

Clemens, B. 1861. Micro-Lepidopterous Larvae. Notes on a Few Species, the Imagos of Which Are Probably Undescribed. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 1: 85-86 (1).

Internet References

Species page at Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of the World

Species page at Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)

Species page at The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.	Micro-Lepidopterous Larvae. Notes on a Few Species, the Imagos of Which Are Probably Undescribed Clemens, B. 1861. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 1: 75-87.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 6 October, 2015 - 1:01pm
Last updated 11 January, 2017 - 12:58pm

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