| Ectoedemia arcuatella | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Ectoedemia |
| Species: | E. arcuatella |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectoedemia arcuatella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) | |
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Ectoedemia arcuatella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae, found in most of Europe (except for the Iberian Peninsula) and east to the Volga and Ural regions of Russia.
Its wingspan measures about 5 mm. The head is ochreous-yellowish to fuscous. The antennal eyecaps are white. The forewings are blackish with an oblique, somewhat curved, shining, silvery fascia in the middle. The outer half of cilia beyond a blackish line are grey whitish. The hindwings are grey. [1] Van Nieukerken provides a key and description. [2] [3]
Adults are on wing from June to July.
The larvae feed on Fragaria moschata , Fragaria vesca , Fragaria viridis , Potentilla erecta and Potentilla sterilis . They mine the leaves of their host plant. [4] [5]
