Ectoedemia minimella
Ectoedemia minimella, Trawscoed, North Wales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species:
E. minimella
Binomial name
Ectoedemia minimella
(Zetterstedt, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Trifurcula minimella Zetterstedt, 1839
  • Nepticula viridicola Weber, 1937
  • Nepticula woolhopiella Stainton, 1887
  • Nepticula mediofasciella (auct.)
  • Nepticula canadensis Braun, 1914

Ectoedemia minimella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widely distributed in the Holarctic.[1][2][3]

The wingspan is 5-6 mm.[4] Adults are black with whitish fascia and eyecaps.[4] Adults are on wing from May to June with one generation per year.[5]

Ectoedemia minimella mine Tir Stent, North Wales

The larvae are leaf miners and feed on species of birch, alder, and hazel.[5] The mine consists of a short tortuous corridor that widens into a blotch, often between two lateral veins, with scattered frass.[3] Pupation takes place outside of the mine.[3]

This species was first described by Swedish naturalist Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt in 1839.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Erik J van Nieukerken; Camiel Doorenweerd; Robert J B Hoare; Donald R Davis (31 October 2016). "Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea)". ZooKeys. 628 (628): 65–246. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.628.9799. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5126388. PMID 27917038. Wikidata Q28109648.
  2. ↑ Gregory R. Pohl; Jean-François Landry; Christian Schmidt; et al. (2018). Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Series Faunistica. Vol. 118. ISBN 978-954-642-909-4. OL 32898597M. Wikidata Q97158808.
  3. 1 2 3 "Ectoedemia minimella [Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae] in Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects". www.ukflymines.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  4. 1 2 "Ectoedemia minimella | UKmoths". www.ukmoths.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  5. 1 2 Erik van Nieukerken; Aleš Laštůvka; Zdeněk Laštůvka (8 January 2010). "Western Palaearctic Ectoedemia (Zimmermannia) Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): five new species and new data on distribution, hostplants and recognition". ZooKeys. 32 (32): 1–82. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.32.282. ISSN 1313-2989. Wikidata Q21191520.


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