NEPTICULIDAE ⁴

Stigmella cypracma (Meyrick, 1916). Endemic.

Habitat, seasonality and behaviour ⁵

Adults have been recorded in February and September-November in native forest and other habitat where its rangiora foodplant is found.

Life history ⁵

Foodplant: rangiora, Brachyglottis repanda. Mine: narrow, not following a particular pattern, but strongly sinuous. Mine terminating in a blotch. Larva recorded May-October and December; about 4 mm long, pale green. Cocoon made of brown silk within the mine.

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1. (c) wild_wind, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by wild_wind
2. George Vernon Hudson , no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stigmella_cypracma_Fig_4_Plate_XXXIV_(cropped).jpg
3. (c) Benjamin Wright, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Benjamin Wright
4. Adapted by Tony Steer from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmella_cypracma
5. (c) Tony Steer, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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