Stigmella pallidiciliella

Stigmella pallidiciliella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species: S. pallidiciliella
Binomial name
Stigmella pallidiciliella
Klimesch, 1946

Stigmella pallidiciliella is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found from the Czech Republic and Slovakia to northern Italy.

The larvae feed on Salix purpurea. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a long corridor along the midrib of the leaf. The frass line is often interrupted and leaves a clear zone at either side. The mine develops into a broad elongate blotch that in narrow leaves may occupy half of the leaf.

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