Stigmella glutinosae (Stainton, 1858) Species
Last modified: Dec. 17, 2025, 11:53 a.m.
An uncommon species in Belgium.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Nepticulidae > Genus: Stigmella > Species: Stigmella glutinosae
- Vernacular names
- Witkraagelzenmineermot (NL), White-Barred Alder Pigmy (EN)
- Synonyms
- Stigmella distinguenda (von Heinemann, 1862) and Stigmella rubescens (von Heinemann, 1871)
- First mention in Belgium
- Fologne E. 1862c. Notes sur quelques lépidoptères observés en Belgique. — Annales de la Société entomologique belge 6: 170–176. On page 175 (as Stigmella Glutinosae. Stt.). view page
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
No pictures yet!Caterpillar
Dark yellow with green intestinal contents, has a brown head and a small gray spot on the prothorax, mines venter-upwards.
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Mine
It's a long irregular gallery with the frass at first in a thin central line, later it becomes broader and very variable in pattern, often several mines in one leaf. Pupates in a dark reddish brown cocoon.
See also bladmineerders.be
Flight periods
The adults fly in two generations a year during May and again in August.
Observed on
- Host plant (species):
- Alnus glutinosa
The monophagous larva makes a leafmine on Alnus glutinosa.
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