Ectoedemia minimella
Ectoedemia minimella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Scandinavia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees and Italy, and from Ireland to Slovakia.
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Ectoedemia minimella, Trawscoed, North Wales | |
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Ectoedemia minimella (Zetterstedt, 1839) | |
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The wingspan is 5.1-6.6 mm. The head of males is blackish or dark fuscous, in females it is ferruginous to yellowish. Antennal eyecaps white. The forewings are blackish, purplish-tinged and there is a somewhat shining rather oblique anteriorly subconcave whitish fascia hardly beyond the middle and sometimes interrupted. Hindwings grey.[1] Adults are on wing from May to June. There is one generation per year.
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The pale greenish larvae feed on Betula nana, Betula pendula, Betula pubescens and Betula pubescens carpatica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a short tortuous corridor, that widens into a blotch, often between two lateral veins. The frass is dispersed. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.
References
- Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf
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- A Taxonomic Revision Of The Western Palaearctic Species Of The Subgenera Zimmermannia Hering And Ectoedemia Busck s.str. (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae), With Notes On Their Phylogeny