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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae » Stigmella » ulmivora group (Stigmella ulmivora group) » Stigmella multispicata - Hodges#0086.1 (Stigmella multispicata)

Species Stigmella multispicata - Hodges#0086.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Nepticulidae, larva dead in mine - Stigmella multispicata

Computer desk - Stigmella multispicata - female

Stigmella multispicata - Stigmella multispicata

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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 (ulmivora group)

Species multispicata (Stigmella multispicata - Hodges#0086.1)

Hodges Number

0086.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Stigmella multispicata Rocienė & Stonis 2014

Size

Male forewing 1.8–1.9 mm; wingspan 3.7–4.1 mm.

Female forewing 1.8–2.2 mm; wingspan 4.0–4.3 mm.

Identification

The only Stigmella in North America with black frontal tuft, white collar, and single fascia on forewing.

Range

Presumed to be native in Russia and China; introduced in Canada (ON, QC) and the USA (IL, IN, IA, MD, MA, MN, NY, OH, TN, WI).

Season

Larvae have been found from mid-June to mid-July and from mid-October to early November; adults in May and from July to early October.

Food

Larvae mine leaves of Siberian elm (Ulmaceae: Ulmus pumila).

See Also

The native oak feeder Stigmella quercipulchella is similar but has an additional silver patch at the tornus, is slightly larger, and has more strongly purple reflections across the forewings.

Print References

Nieukerken, Erik J. van, Daniel Owen Gilrein & Charles S. Eiseman. 2018. Stigmella multispicata Rocienė & Stonis, an Asian leafminer on Siberian elm now widespread in eastern North America. ZooKeys 784: 95-125.

Stonis J.R., A. Diškus, A. Remeikis, A. Navickaite, A. Rocienė, 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: 201–222.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (1)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 22 August, 2018 - 8:26am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 26 September, 2018 - 6:38pm

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