Stigmella anomalella (Goeze, 1783) Species
Last modified: Nov. 7, 2024, 3:38 p.m.
A common species throughout Belgium, but sometimes confused with the mines of Stigmella centifoliella.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Nepticulidae > Genus: Stigmella > Species: Stigmella anomalella
- Vernacular names
- Bruine rozenmineermot (NL), Rose Leaf-miner (EN)
- First mention in Belgium
- De Fré Ch. 1858. Catalogue des Microlépidoptères de la Belgique. — Annales de la Société entomologique belge 2: 45–162. On page 152 (as N.[epticula] Anomalella Gotze; H. S.). view page
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
No pictures yet!Mine
The mine is a long, and gradually widening gallery. The initial gallery is completely filled with frass. Later on the frass pattern can change abruptly from a thick central line into coiled frass, allways leaving clear margins.
See also bladmineerders.be
Cocoon/pupa
It makes a red to red brown cocoon.
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Bionomics
It pupates in the cocoon, generally spun on the surface of a leaf or a leaf-stalk.
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Flight periods
The adults fly in two generations a year during May and August.
Observed on
- Host plant (species):
- Rosa pimpinellifolia
- Host plant (genera):
- Rosa and Sanguisorba
The larva makes a leafmine on Rosa and sometimes also on Sanguisorba.
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