Ectoedemia albibimaculella
| Ectoedemia albibimaculella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Ectoedemia |
| Species: | E. albibimaculella |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectoedemia albibimaculella (Larsen, 1927) | |
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Ectoedemia albibimaculella is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found from Fennoscandia to Italy.
The wingspan is 5–6 mm.
The larvae feed on Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a slender gallery that eventually enters a petiole, from where it enters a bud. The larva hibernates in the bud, that is eaten out in spring. Then the larva bores in a young shoot, sometimes diverting into a leaf that then is completely mined out. Pupation takes place in a dark yellow cocoon inside the mine.