# Stigmella poterii

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***Stigmella poterii*** is a [moth](/source/Moth) of the family [Nepticulidae](/source/Nepticulidae). It is found from [Fennoscandia](/source/Fennoscandia) to the [Pyrenees](/source/Pyrenees) and [Italy](/source/Italy), and from [Ireland](/source/Ireland) to [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine).[1]

The [wingspan](/source/Wingspan) is 3–5 millimetres (0.12–0.20 in).The thick erect hairs on the head vertex are ferruginous and the collar dark brown' The antennal eyecaps are whitish. The forewings are golden-bronze with a pale golden metallic slightly inwards-oblique fascia beyond middle. The apical area beyond this is dark purple-fuscous. The hindwings are grey.[2] [3][4][5]

Adults fly in June, then a second generation in August and September.

The [larva](/source/Larva) is amber yellow in colour and has a brown-coloured head.[6] It feeds on *[Filipendula ulmaria](/source/Filipendula_ulmaria)*, *[Potentilla anserina](/source/Potentilla_anserina)*, *[Potentilla erecta](/source/Potentilla_erecta)*, *[Potentilla palustris](/source/Potentilla_palustris)*, *[Potentilla tabernaemontani](/source/Potentilla_tabernaemontani)*, *[Rubus arcticus](/source/Rubus_arcticus)*, *[Rubus chamaemorus](/source/Rubus_chamaemorus)*, *[Rubus saxatilis](/source/Rubus_saxatilis)*, *[Sanguisorba minor](/source/Sanguisorba_minor)* and *[Sanguisorba officinalis](/source/Sanguisorba_officinalis)*. They mine the leaves of their host plant.[7]

## References

1. ["*Stigmella poterii* (Stainton, 1857)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150610201922/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=431947). 2.6.2. [Fauna Europaea](/source/Fauna_Europaea). August 29, 2013. Archived from [the original](http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=431947) on June 10, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2013.

1. Meyrick, E., 1895 *A Handbook of British Lepidoptera* MacMillan, London

1. [lepiforum.de includes images](https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Stigmella_poterii)

1. Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Nepticulidae (Stigmellidae); in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): *Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR*, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987

1. Emmet, A. M., 1976. Nepticulidae. — In: J. Heath (ed.). *[The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland](/source/The_Moths_and_Butterflies_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland)* 1: 171—267, pls. 1—7, 11, 12.

1. ["Stigmella poterii (Stainton, 1857)"](http://www.ukflymines.co.uk/Moths/Stigmella_poterii.php). UK Fly Mines. Retrieved November 20, 2013.

1. ["Stigmella poterii (Stainton, 1857)"](http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/stigmella/poterii/poterii.htm). Bladmineerders.nl. Retrieved March 26, 2010.

## External links

- [Bestimmungshilfe für die in Europa nachgewiesenen Schmetterlingsarten](http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Stigmella_Poterii)
- [Swedish moths](http://www2.nrm.se/en/svenska_fjarilar/s/stigmella_poterii.html)
- [*Stigmella poterii* images](http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=286307) at [Consortium for the Barcode of Life](/source/Consortium_for_the_Barcode_of_Life)

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