Ectoedemia rubivora

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Ectoedemia rubivora
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Domain: Eukaryota
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. The 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] [2] 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.

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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
  2. lepiforum.de includes images PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .