Ectoedemia rubivora

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Ectoedemia rubivora
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species:
E. rubivora
Binomial name
Ectoedemia rubivora
(Wocke, 1860)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula rubivoraWocke, 1860

Ectoedemia rubivora is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Serbia, and from Ireland to central Russia and Ukraine.

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The wingspan is 4.6–6 mm. The head is black or sometimes a ferruginous-brown. Antennal eyecaps are white. The forewing ground colour is black and there is a somewhat bent shining silvery fascia hardly beyond middle ; outer half of cilia beyond a black line whitish. Hindwings are grey. [1] Adults are on wing from June to July. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Rubus arcticus , Rubus caesius , Rubus chamaemorus , Rubus fruticosus and Rubus saxatilis . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a highly contorted gallery, strongly widening towards the end. The frass in the second half of the gallery is dispersed. The larve mines venter upwards. There are several mines in a single leaf most of the time.

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References

  1. ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Keys and description


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