Common Fruit-tree Pigmy

Stigmella oxyacanthella

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae

Stigmella oxyacanthella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae, found in Europe and North America. The larvae are leaf miners feeding inside the leaves of trees and shrubs, such as hawthorn, apple and pear. Description The wingspan is 5–6 mm.

Distribution

Common Fruit-tree Pigmy — (c) Michael Kurz, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United Kingdom · 69Germany · 38Netherlands · 32Belgium · 7France · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Michael Kurz, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA DescriptionStigmella oxyacanthella, Wikipedia contributors

Common Fruit-tree Pigmy

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