Ectoedemia subbimaculella

Ectoedemia subbimaculella
Imago Hertfordshire, England
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species:
E. subbimaculella
Binomial name
Ectoedemia subbimaculella
(Haworth, 1828)
Synonyms
  • Tinea subbimaculella Haworth, 1828
  • Dechtiria subbimaculella (Haworth, 1828)
  • Stigmella subbimaculella (Haworth, 1828)
  • Nepticula bistrimaculella Heyden, 1861
  • Nepticula cursoriella Zeller, 1848
  • Microsetia nigrociliella Stephens, 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.

Damage ("green island"

The wingspan is 5–6 mm. The head is orange. The antennal eyecaps are whitish. The forewings are dark fuscous with an ochreous-whitish small basal spot, another on middle of the costa, and a larger triangular spot on the dorsum before tornus; tips of apical cilia whitish. The hindwings are grey.[1][2] [3][4]

The larvae feed on Castanea sativa, Quercus frainetto, Quercus macranthera, Quercus petraea, Quercus pubescens, Quercus pyrenaica, Quercus robur and Quercus rubra. [5] They mine the leaves of their host plant. Pupation takes place outside of the mine. Adults fly in June and July.

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 Nepticulidae (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
  5. ^ Plant parasites of Europe


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