Ectoedemia tigrinella

Ectoedemia tigrinella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species: E. tigrinella
Binomial name
Ectoedemia tigrinella
(Puplesis, 1985)
Synonyms
  • Obrussa tigrinella Puplesis, 1985
  • Etainia tigrinella

Ectoedemia tigrinella is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found in the Russian Far East (Primorskiy Kray).[1]

The larvae probably feed on Acer species and probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

Taxonomy

It was previously treated as a synonym of Ectoedemia trifasciata.

References

  1. ↑ Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of East Asia (2). Study of a collection sample deposited at the Russian Academy of Sciences, with descriptions of new species and a checklist
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