Stigmella myrtillella (Stainton, 1857) Species
Last modified: Dec. 17, 2025, 12:08 p.m.
A fairly common species in Belgium where the food plants grows.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Nepticulidae > Genus: Stigmella > Species: Stigmella myrtillella
- Vernacular names
- Bosbesmineermot (NL), Bilberry Pigmy (EN)
- First mention in Belgium
- Fologne E. 1863. Addenda au catalogue des Lépidoptères de Belgique. — Annales de la Société entomologique belge 7: 87–93. On page 93 (as Nepticula Myrtillella Edleston). view page
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
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The larva makes a leafmine usually starting close to a midrib, initially a gallery and later becoming a blotch with the frass in a thick central line.
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Cocoon/pupa
It pupates in a ochreous to reddish brown cocoon.
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Flight periods
The adults fly in two generations a year from May till June and later again in August.
Observed on
- Host plant (species):
- Vaccinium myrtillus and Vaccinium uliginosum
The larva lives on Vaccinium myrtillus and V. uliginosum. Very rarely found on V. vitis-idaeae.
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