Stigmella juglandifoliella

Stigmella juglandifoliella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Stigmella
Species: S. juglandifoliella
Binomial name
Stigmella juglandifoliella
(Clemens, 1861)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula juglandifoliella Clemens, 1862

The pecan serpentine leafminer (Stigmella juglandifoliella) is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky in the United States.

Stigmella juglandifoliella mine

The wingspan is 3.5-3.8 mm. There are probably two generations per year.

The larvae feed on Carya illinoinensis (pecan). They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of linear (serpentine) mines, just beneath the upper surface of the leaf. If the egg is laid near the center of the leaflet, the early bends of the resulting mine may lie around each other in a spiral because the larvae are unable to cross leaflet veins. If the egg is laid near the margin of the leaf, the mines will often follow leaflet margins.


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