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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Stigmella » prunifoliella group (Stigmella prunifoliella group)

prunifoliella group

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Food · Works Cited
Wild Cherry Leaf Miner ID Request - Stigmella prunifoliella Stigmella - Stigmella undescribed-species-on-rhus-aromatica St. Andrews leaf miner on Rhus copallina SA 105A 2015 1 - Stigmella intermedia Unid Leafminer Gtr1 - Stigmella rhoifoliella Unid Leafminer Gps5 - Stigmella prunifoliella Stigmella prunifoliella Stigmella prunifoliella Nepticulidae, Sumac leaf minerX - Stigmella intermedia
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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 prunifoliella group
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
The name "prunifoliella group" is now preferred to the older “prunetorum group” because the prunifoliella group contains several North American species, whereas the name “prunetorum group” was based on a single European species. (1)
Numbers
6 described species in North America; 9 worldwide (1)
Food
Hosts are in Anacardiaceae (2 spp.), Malvaceae (1 sp.), Rhamnaceae (1 sp.), and Rosaceae (1 sp.); the host of S. cerea is unknown.
Works Cited
1.Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea)
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 8 October, 2016 - 8:40am
Last updated 31 October, 2016 - 7:10pm

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