Stigmella malella

TaxID: 1870365

Basic Information

Stigmella malella

Apple Pigmy, Apple Pygmy Moth

The banded apple pigmy (Stigmella malella) is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in almost all of Europe, except Iceland and Norway. The wingspan is 4 C6 millimetres (0.16 C0.24 in).The head is ferruginous-ochreous, the collar whitish. The antennal eyecaps are whitish, and the forewings dark fuscous with a shining white fascia beyond the middle. The hindwings are grey. Adults are on wing from April to August. The larvae feed on Malus x astracanica, Malus baccata, Malus domestica, Malus floribunda, Malus fusca, Malus ringo, Malus sylvestris and sometimes Prunus. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Nepticulidae

Stigmella

malella

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Photos (5 photos)

Stigmella malella
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(c) jakob_t@BY-NC
Stigmella malella
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(c) Michael Kurz@BY-SA
Stigmella malella
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(c) jakob_t@BY-NC
Stigmella malella
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(c) Thomas Gyselinck@BY
Stigmella malella
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(c) unknown@CC0

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (2 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Moldova Quarantine pests —

Distribution (14 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Germany Present —
Denmark Present —
Estonia Present —
France Present —
United Kingdom Present —
Greece Present —
Italy Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (14 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
ZSEA016-25 BOLD:ABW2333 COI-5P 655 United Kingdom 2024-03-20 52.2632, 1.0133
NLLEA029-12 BOLD:ABW2333 COI-5P 658 Netherlands 2011-07-28 52.169, 4.468
NLLEA028-12 BOLD:ABW2333 COI-5P 658 Netherlands 2011-07-28 52.169, 4.468
NEPTA929-13 BOLD:ABW2333 COI-5P 658 Russia 2009-08-13 53.418, 38.677
NEPTA581-13 BOLD:ACG8537 COI-5P 654 Greece 2011-11-03 38.014, 21.973
NEPTA580-13 BOLD:AAV8366 COI-5P 658 Germany 2007-09-09 52.421, 13.749
NEPTA2550-21 BOLD:ABW2333 COI-5P 656 Russia 2020-08-15 54.484, 46.894
NEPTA2452-21 BOLD:ABW2333 COI-5P 658 France 2017-10-08 47.212, 0.242
NEPTA2344-20 BOLD:ABW2333 COI-5P 658 Belgium 2019-09-14 49.547, 5.561
NEPTA2279-19 BOLD:AAV8366 COI-5P 658 Russia 2002-09-09 54.3, 48.38
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Literature