Ectoedemia guerkiae

Ectoedemia guerkiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species: E. guerkiae
Binomial name
Ectoedemia guerkiae
Scoble, 1983

Ectoedemia guerkiae is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It was described by Scoble in 1983. It is known from South Africa (it was described from Pretoria).[1]

The larvae feed on Diospyros lycioides guerkei.

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