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Stigmella alikurokoi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nepticulidae

Scientific name
  
Stigmella alikurokoi

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Stigmella

Rank
  
Species

Stigmella alikurokoi is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is only known from Kyushu in Japan.

There are three generations or more per year.

The larvae feed on Rubus buergeri, Rubus phoenicolasius and Rubus palmatus var. coptophyllus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a linear, long and slender gallery on the upper surface of the leaf. It sometimes runs along the leaf margin and the mid rib. It is greenish brown to brown with a dark brown central line of frass.

References

Stigmella alikurokoi Wikipedia