Wild-service Pigmy

Stigmella mespilicola

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae

Stigmella mespilicola is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Germany to the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Macedonia and from Great Britain to Ukraine. The larvae feed on Amelachier parviflora, Cotoneaster racemiflorus, Cotoneaster salicifolia, Sorbus aria and Sorbus torminalis.

Distribution

Wild-service Pigmy — (c) Gyorgy Csoka, Hungary Forest Research Institute, Hungary, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Germany · 35France · 17Belgium · 6Luxembourg · 2

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Gyorgy Csoka, Hungary Forest Research Institute, Hungary, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionStigmella mespilicola, Wikipedia contributors

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