Stigmella ilicifoliella (Mendes, 1918)

Description. Male. Forewing length 2.5-3.0 mm, wingspan 6.0-6.6 mm. Head: frontal tuft from almost white or ochreous to yellowish orange, occasionally black, collar pale grey to dark grey-fuscous. Scape pale yellow. Antenna slightly darker, 3/5 of forewing length, with 39-50 segments, ratio to forewing length 15-19 segments/mm. Thorax and forewing unicolorous dark bronze brown, at base and on thorax almost bluish black in fresh specimens, a faint purplish lustre at apex; terminal cilia concolorous, underside bronze-brown. Hindwing coarsely scaled, dark grey-brown, dorsum with long dark brown to bluish black androconial scales, extending into fringe, the longest near base, approximately 3/4 of cilia length; along basal half of costa long curved, spatulate bluish-black androconial scales, the longest as long as or longer than the shortest dorsal androconial scales; underside grey brown, cilia dark grey. Abdomen dark grey brown, with conspicuous white to pale yellowish anal tufts inserted on well sclerotized plates; genital capsule not particularly broad, valvae with dense tuft of hairs.
Female. Forewing length 2.5-2.9 mm. Antennae with 33-40 segments, ratio to forewing length 12-16 segments/mm. As male, but collar yellowish white to pale yellow, hindwing grey, androconial scales absent, abdomen dark grey-brown, without anal tufts.
Male genitalia. Measurements: see table 3. Capsule longer than wide or almost as long as wide. Vinculum anteriorly slightly bilobed. Uncus with widely separated horns. Gnathos with widely separated posterior processes with club-shaped tips. Valva with pointed distal process less than 1/4 valva length, pointing slightly inwards; inner margin forming a rounded lobe, ventral outer lobe pronounced, but not as bulging as in suberivora, covered with field of dense setae, but no papillae; sublateral processes short. Aedeagus with vesica with a more or less curved group of cornuti in basal half; this band comprises about 20-30 large cornuti with serrated bases and many small spinelike cornuti; more distally there is a group of ca 7-12 long needle-shaped cornuti and a few near phallotrema; manica covering aedeagus almost completely, except anteriormost part, covered with small spines and pectinations.
Female genitalia. T8 with ca 25-50 setae. Bursa length 1062-1204 μm, 2.3-3.0 as long as accessory sac . Bursa distally covered with minute pectinations, difficult to see (observed with Differential Interference Contrast only); accessory sac anteriorly with pectinations only. Ductus spermathecae with 4.5 (n=3) convolutions.