Ectoedemia minimella
| Ectoedemia minimella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Ectoedemia |
| Species: | E. minimella |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectoedemia minimella (Zetterstedt, 1839) | |
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Ectoedemia minimella is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found from Scandinavia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees and Italy, and from Ireland to Slovakia.
The wingspan is 5.1-6.6 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Betula nana, Betula pendula, Betula pubescens and Betula pubescens carpatica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a short tortuous corridor, that widens into a blotch, often between two lateral veins. The frass is dispersed. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.
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- Fauna Europaea
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- Swedish moths
- Ectoedemia minimella images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- A Taxonomic Revision Of The Western Palaearctic Species Of The Subgenera Zimmermannia Hering And Ectoedemia Busck s.str. (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae), With Notes On Their Phylogeny
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