Ectoedemia angulifasciella

Ectoedemia angulifasciella
Ectoedemia angulifasciella, pair in copula Trawscoed, North Wales, May 2011
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species:
E. angulifasciella
Binomial name
Ectoedemia angulifasciella
(Stainton, 1849)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula angulifasciella Stainton, 1849
  • Nepticula brunniella Sauber, 1904
  • Nepticula minorella Zimmermann, 1944
  • Nepticula schleichiella Frey, 1870
  • Nepticula utensis Weber, 1937

Ectoedemia angulifasciella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Mediterranean Islands.

Damage

The wingspan is 5–6 mm. The head is pale ochreous and the antennal eyecaps ochreous-white. The forewings are black with a somewhat bent sometimes interrupted shining silvery fascia in middle. The outer half of cilia beyond a black line are white. Hind wings are grey.[1] [2] van Nieukerken provides a key and description. [3][4]

Adults are on wing in July.

The larvae feed on Filipendula vulgaris, Rosa canina, Rosa pendulina, Rosa sempervirens, Sanguisorba minor and Sanguisorba officinalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
  2. ^ lepiforum.de includes imagesPublic Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ van Nieukerken, E. J. (1985): A taxonomic revision of the Western Palaearctic species of the subgenera Zimmermannia Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae), with nothes on their phylogeny. Tijdschrift voor entomologie 128: 1-164.pdf
  4. ^ Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Nepticilidae (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


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