Ectoedemia spiraeae
| Ectoedemia spiraeae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Ectoedemia |
| Species: | E. spiraeae |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectoedemia spiraeae Gregor & Povolny, 1983 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ectoedemia spiraeae is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is only known from Slovakia and the Matra mountains in Hungary.
The wingspan is 4.8-5.6 mm. Adults have been reared from February to March and from May to June. There is probably one generations per year.
The larvae feed on Spiraea media. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a corridor following a vein, occasionally the leaf margin, filled with brown, dispersed frass. The corridor widens into a large, irregular blotch with blackish dispersed frass.
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Male genitalia
External links
- Fauna Europaea
- bladmineerders.nl
- 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