Stigmella poterii

{{short description|Species of moth}}

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|taxon = Stigmella poterii

|authority = (Stainton, 1857)

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• Nepticula poterii Stainton, 1857
• Nepticula comari Wocke, 1862
• Nepticula diffinis Wocke, 1874
• Nepticula elisabethella Szocs, 1957
• Nepticula geminella Frey, 1870
• Nepticula occultella Heinemann, 1871
• Nepticula palustrella Frey, 1870
• Nepticula poteriella Doubleday, 1859
• Nepticula serella Stainton, 1888
• Nepticula tengstroemi Nolcken, 1871
• Stigmella tengstroemi
• Stigmella serella

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Stigmella poterii is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees and Italy, and from Ireland to Ukraine.{{cite web|url= http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=431947|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150610201922/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=431947|url-status= dead|archive-date= June 10, 2015|title=Stigmella poterii (Stainton, 1857)|publisher=Fauna Europaea|version=2.6.2|date=August 29, 2013|accessdate=November 20, 2013}}

Image:Stigmella poterii a leaf of Poterium sanguisorba with several mined leaflets.JPG with several mined leaflets]]

Image:Stigmella poterii larva.JPG

The wingspan is {{convert|3|–|5|mm}}.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.Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London

[https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Stigmella_poterii lepiforum.de includes images]{{PD-notice}} 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 Emmet, A. M., 1976. Nepticulidae. — In: J. Heath

(ed.). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 1: 171—267, pls. 1—7, 11, 12.

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

The larva is amber yellow in colour and has a brown-coloured head.{{cite web|url=http://www.ukflymines.co.uk/Moths/Stigmella_poterii.php|title= Stigmella poterii (Stainton, 1857)|publisher=UK Fly Mines|accessdate=November 20, 2013}} It feeds on Filipendula ulmaria, Potentilla anserina, Potentilla erecta, Potentilla palustris, Potentilla tabernaemontani, Rubus arcticus, Rubus chamaemorus, Rubus saxatilis, Sanguisorba minor and Sanguisorba officinalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant.{{cite web|url= http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/stigmella/poterii/poterii.htm |title=Stigmella poterii (Stainton, 1857)|publisher=Bladmineerders.nl|accessdate= March 26, 2010}}