Ectoedemia spiraeae

Ectoedemia spiraeae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species: E. spiraeae
Binomial name
Ectoedemia spiraeae
Gregor & Povolny, 1983
Synonyms
  • Ectoedemia jacutica Puplesis, 1988

Ectoedemia spiraeae is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is only known from Slovakia and the Mátra mountains in Hungary.

The wingspan is 4.8-5.6 mm. Adults have been reared from February to March and from May to June. There is probably one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Spiraea media. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a corridor following a vein, occasionally the leaf margin, filled with brown, dispersed frass. The corridor widens into a large, irregular blotch with blackish dispersed frass.

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, January 24, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.