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Stigmella magdalenae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Scandinavia and Finland to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria, and from Ireland to central Russia and Ukraine.

Stigmella magdalenae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Stigmella
Species:	S. magdalenae
Binomial name
Stigmella magdalenae (Klimesch, 1950)
Synonyms
Nepticula magdalenae Klimesch, 1950

The wingspan is 4–5 mm. Adults are on wing in July.

The larvae feed on Amelanchier ovalis, Amelanchier spicata, Cotoneaster integerrimus, Malus sylvestris, Sorbus aucuparia and Sorbus torminalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow corridor. It sometimes follows the leaf margin for a while, more often it is found along a major vein. The frass is concentrated in a narrow, regularly interrupted central line.

External links

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

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