Ectoedemia gilvipennella

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Ectoedemia gilvipennella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species:
E. gilvipennella
Binomial name
Ectoedemia gilvipennella
(Klimesch, 1946)
Synonyms
  • Stigmella gilvipennellaKlimesch, 1946

Ectoedemia gilvipennella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from the Czech Republic and Slovakia to Italy and Greece.

The wingspan is 4.4-5.4 mm. Adults are on wing from April to June. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Quercus cerris and Quercus trojana . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a gradually widening corridor, strongly contorted and crumpled into a small surface. The frass is brown and dispersed and almost fills the corridor.


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