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Stigmella alnetella

Synonyms: Gypsonoma incarnana alnetella; Nepticula alnetella (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Stigmella alnetella is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found in all of Europe, except the Balkan Peninsula. The wingspan is 3.9-4.8 mm. The larvae feed on Alnus cordata and Alnus glutinosa. They mine the leaves of their host plant. There is usually only one mine in a leaf. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Coedydd Aber 855 Wales, United Kingdom  
Fenland 1529 England, United Kingdom
Gower Commons/ Tiroedd Comin Gwyr 4390 Wales, United Kingdom

Prey / Diet

Alnus cordata (Italian alder)[1]
Alnus glutinosa (European alder)[2]
Alnus ovata (mountain alder)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0