''Stigmella dryadella'' is a

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of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from

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and northern

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to the

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and

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, and from

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. The

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is 4.5-5.5 mm. The greyish-brown antennae are just over half the forewing length. The forewings have a basal greenish sheen , either side of the silvery transverse band they are brown with a purple sheen. The hindwings are grey. The larvae feed on ''

Dryas octopetala ''Dryas octopetala'', the mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas or white dryad, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly ...

''. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Emmet, A. M., 1976. Nepticulidae. — In: J. Heath (ed.). ''

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'' 1: 171—267, pls. 1—7, 11, 12.

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Fauna Europaea

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