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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) » Stigmella prunifoliella - Hodges#0070 (Stigmella prunifoliella)
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Tiny Moth - Stigmella prunifoliella
Copyright © 2010 G.K. Gerber

Tiny Moth - Stigmella prunifoliella
Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
August 17, 2010
Size: ~2 mm
This tiny moth with a red brush nose was sitting on a hasta leaf in the evening. Looks like Nepticulidae based on BugGuide images, maybe Ectoedemia.
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Contributed by G.K. Gerber on 17 August, 2010 - 11:54pm
Last updated 24 April, 2013 - 3:05pm

Image Use Request
This is a nice image of a tiny moth. If you are interested, I can submit it to MPG. Send me an email and I'l get back to with details. My email address is on my info page. Click my name below. Thanks.
… Steve Nanz, 26 April, 2013 - 12:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Nepticuloidea.
… Charley Eiseman, 24 April, 2013 - 3:05pm login or register to post comments

Stigmella prunifoliella
Another Stigmella prunifoliella, a very common species.

Difference between Ectoedemia and Stigmella: Stigmella has a collar of lamellar scales, here concolorous with the thorax (between the eyecaps), whereas Ectoedemia and other genera have a small collar consisting of hair scales.
… Erik van Nieukerken, 24 April, 2013 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… G.K. Gerber, 18 August, 2010 - 2:04am login or register to post comments

Fantastik Foto!
... and probably correctly identified as far as possible for the moment. (no rsvp, thanks)
… Bob Patterson, 18 August, 2010 - 1:50am login or register to post comments

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