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Stigmella dryadella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees and Italy, and from Ireland to Romania.

Stigmella dryadella
Stigmella dryadella mine Austria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Stigmella
Species:	S. dryadella
Binomial name
Stigmella dryadella (O. Hofmann, 1868)
Synonyms
Nepticula dryadella O. Hofmann, 1868

The wingspan is 4.5-5.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Dryas octopetala. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow corridor, descending towards the base of the leaf while following the leaf margin. Later, the corridor reverses its direction, and widens into a blotch that may occupy half of the leaf. The frass is concentrated in the corridor as a broad central ribbon and is broadly scattered in the blotch.

External links

• Fauna Europaea
• bladmineerders.nl
• Swedish moths
• Stigmella dryadella images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• lepiforum.de
• insecta.pro

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