| Ectoedemia heringi | |
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| Ectoedemia heringi leafmine Austria | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Ectoedemia |
| Species: | E. heringi |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectoedemia heringi (Toll, 1934) | |
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Ectoedemia heringi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from southern Great Britain and Ireland to Poland and further east to central Russia.
The wingspan is 4.2-5.3 mm. [1] Differentiated from the slightly smaller Ectoedemia subbimaculella by the darker head and the ductus spermathecae in the female. [2] [3]
Adults are on wing in May in the south and in June and July more in the north. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Castanea sativa , Quercus faginea , Quercus macrolepis , Quercus petraea , Quercus pubescens and Quercus robur . They mine the leaves of their host plant. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.
The name honours the German entomologist Erich Martin Hering.
