Ectoedemia septembrella | |
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Ectodemia septembrella, England | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nepticulidae |
Genus: | Ectoedemia |
Species: | E. septembrella |
Binomial name | |
Ectoedemia septembrella (Stainton, 1849) | |
Synonyms | |
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Ectoedemia septembrella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe, east to the eastern part of the Palearctic realm. It is also found in the Near East.
The wingspan is 5–6 mm. The head is ferruginous to ochreous with a whitish collar. Antennal eyecaps whitish. Posterior tarsi whitish. Forewings dark fuscous, somewhat pale-sprinkled and with a subtriangular whitish tornal spot; tips of apical cilia whitish. Hindwings grey. [1] Adults are on wing in May and June and again in August.
The larvae feed on Hypericum bupleuroides , Hypericum caprifolium , Hypericum hircinum , Hypericum hirsutum , Hypericum hookerianum , Hypericum inodorum , Hypericum maculatum , Hypericum montanum , Hypericum nummularium , Hypericum patulum , Hypericum perforatum , Hypericum rhodoppeum , Hypericum serpyllifolium , Hypericum tetrapterum , Hypericum undulatum . They mine the leaves of their host plant.
The treble-bar or St. John's wort inchworm is a moth of the family Geometridae. the species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East.
Ectoedemia is a genus of moths in the family Nepticulidae. It consists of the subgenera Ectoedemia, Etainia, Fomoria and Zimmermannia. This genus was established by August Busck in 1907.
Ectoedemia turbidella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae and is found in most of Europe. The larva mine the leaves of poplar trees and was first described by the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1848.
Ectoedemia argyropeza is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is a widespread species, with a Holarctic distribution.
Ectoedemia subbimaculella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe, east to Smolensk, Kaluganorth and the Volga and Ural regions of Russia.
Ectoedemia arcuatella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Iberian Peninsula, east to and the Volga and Ural regions of Russia.
Ectoedemia occultella, the small birch leafminer, is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It has a Holarctic distribution. It is found in most of Europe, east through Russia to Japan. It is also present in North America. Mines very similar to that of Ectoedemia occultella have been found on Rosaceae species in Nepal and Japan and these may belong to this species.
Ectoedemia intimella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae which is found in Europe. It flies in June and July and the larva mine the leaves of willows from July to November.
Ectoedemia agrimoniae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Greece, and from Great Britain to Ukraine.
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.
Ectoedemia sericopeza, the Norway maple seedminer, is a moth of the family Nepticulidae, found in Europe and North America. It was described by the German entomologist, Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1839.
Ectoedemia deschkai is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Greece.
Ectoedemia empetrifolii is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Greece (Peloponnesus).
Ectoedemia luisae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Turkey.
Ectoedemia variicapitella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is endemic to the Canary Islands.
Ectoedemia festivitatis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Nepal, China (Yunnan) and northern Vietnam. It is probably more widespread in south-eastern Asia. The habitat consists of secondary or degraded forest or shrub vegetation in mountainous areas.
Euspilapteryx auroguttella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from all of Europe.
Ectoedemia hypericifolia is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It was described by R.K. Puplesis in 1988. It was described from Kyushu, Japan, but is also known from Russia and China.
Ectoedemia permira is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It was described by R.K. Puplesis in 1984. It is known from the Russian Far East and China.
Adelius clandestinus is a hymenopteran parasitoid in the family Braconidae. It is a solitary endoparasitoid of larvae of micromoths in the family Nepticulidae. It has also been reported from a cecidomyiid fly. It occurs from southern France to northern Sweden to the east coast of Russia.