Ectoedemia sericopeza
| Ectoedemia sericopeza | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Ectoedemia |
| Species: | E. sericopeza |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectoedemia sericopeza (Zeller, 1839) | |
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Ectoedemia sericopeza, the Norway maple seedminer, is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandinavia to the Pyrenees, Italy, and Greece and from Great Britain to Russia and Ukraine. It is also present in North America, where it has been recorded from Delaware, Massachusetts, Ontario and Quebec.
The wingspan is 6–9 mm.
The larvae feed on Acer platanoides. The mine of first generation larvae consists of a short, superficial corridor, leading towards the seed, that is eaten out. Larvae of the second generation make a short mine in the bark of a petiole, and from there penetrates a bud that is consumed from the inside out.
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