Ectoedemia subbimaculella

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Ectoedemia subbimaculella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species:
E. subbimaculella
Binomial name
Ectoedemia subbimaculella
(Haworth, 1828)
Synonyms
  • Tinea subbimaculellaHaworth, 1828
  • Dechtiria subbimaculella(Haworth, 1828)
  • Stigmella subbimaculella(Haworth, 1828)
  • Nepticula bistrimaculellaHeyden, 1861
  • Nepticula cursoriellaZeller, 1848
  • Microsetia nigrociliellaStephens, 1834

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.

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The wingspan is 5–6 mm. The head is orange. Antennal eyecaps whitish. Forewings are dark fuscous with an ochreous-whitish small basal spot, another on middle of costa, and a larger triangular spot on dorsum before tornus; tips of apical cilia whitish. Hindwings grey. [1]

The larvae feed on Castanea sativa , Quercus frainetto , Quercus macranthera , Quercus petraea , Quercus pubescens , Quercus pyrenaica , Quercus robur and Quercus rubra . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow corridor, filled with frass, running along a vein (usually the midrib, but sometimes a lateral vein and then running in the direction of the midrib). The corridor widens into a blotch. The larva makes a slit in the lower epidermis of the blotch, by which part of the frass is ejected. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.

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References

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