Ectoedemia minimella

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Ectoedemia minimella
Ectoedemia minimella, Trawscoed, North Wales, May 2011 (20981418815).jpg
Ectoedemia minimella, Trawscoed, North Wales
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species:
E. minimella
Binomial name
Ectoedemia minimella
(Zetterstedt, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Trifurcula minimellaZetterstedt, 1839
  • Nepticula viridicolaWeber, 1937
  • Nepticula woolhopiellaStainton, 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] The head hair and collar are black, the eyecups white. The antennae are grey and about half the forewing length. The forewings are black with a silvery transverse band. The hindwings are grey [5] [6]

Ectoedemia minimella mine Tir Stent, North Wales Ectoedemia minimella mine, Tir Stent, North Wales, July 2007 (20988897861).jpg
Ectoedemia minimella mine Tir Stent, North Wales

The larvae are leaf miners and feed on species of birch, alder, and hazel. [7] [3] Pupation takes place outside of the mine. [3] Adults are on wing from May to June with one generation per year. [7]

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. ↑ "Ectoedemia minimella | UKmoths". www.ukmoths.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  5. ↑ lepiforum.de includes images PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  6. ↑ Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Nepticulidae (Stigmellidae); in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987
  7. 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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