Stigmella salicis (Stainton, 1854) Species
Last modified: Dec. 17, 2025, 12:29 p.m.
A common species throughout Belgium where the food plants occurs.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Nepticulidae > Genus: Stigmella > Species: Stigmella salicis
- Vernacular names
- Boswilgmineermot, Gewone wilgenmineermot (NL), Sallow Pigmy (EN)
- Synonyms
- Stigmella libiezi Dufrane, 1949
- First mention in Belgium
- Fologne E. 1859b. Supplément au catalogue des lépidoptères de Belgique. — Annales de la Société entomologique belge 3: 133–142. On page 138 (as Nepticula salicis. Staint.). view page
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
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The larva is yellow.
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Mine
The larva makes a gallery which becomes a secundary blotch with a broad frass line.
Bionomics
Eggs are laid on roughleaved sallows. Pupates in a yellowish brown cocoon.
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Flight periods
The adults fly in two generations a year in May-June, and July-August.
Observed on
- Host plant (species):
- Salix caprea, Salix aurita, Salix cinerea, Myrica gale and Salix viminalis
- Host plant (genera):
- Salix
The larva lives on roughleaved sallows like Salix aurita, S. caprea, S. cinerea, rarely on Myrica gale and very rarely on narrowleaved willows like Salix viminalis.
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