Species Stigmella aromella - Hodges#0085

Classification · Hodges Number · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References

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 (salicis group)

Species aromella (Stigmella aromella - Hodges#0085)

Hodges Number

0085

Explanation of Names

Authors: Wilkinson & Scoble, 1979

Identification

The species was described as distinct from S. populetorum based on four male specimens whose abdomens were dorsally bright ochreous (as opposed to gray in S. populetorum) and had two or three ventral, internal scent-scale pouches packed with ovoid scales, formed by invagination of the intersegmental membranes (absent in S. populetorum).

Range

Described from Ontario.

Food

Larvae mine leaves of Populus spp.

Print References

Wilkinson, Christopher and M. J. Scoble. 1979. The Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of Canada. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 107:1-129.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 28 October, 2015 - 10:21am

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