Ectoedemia luisae

Ectoedemia luisae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species: E. luisae
Binomial name
Ectoedemia luisae
(Klimesch, 1978)
Synonyms
  • Fomoria luisae Klimesch, 1978
  • Trifurcula luisae (Klimesch, 1978)

Ectoedemia luisae is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found in Turkey.

The larvae feed on Hypericum calycinum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a thin and tortuous corridor that is almost entirely filled with frass. The corridor widens into a blotch. Here the frass is found in the centre. Pupation takes place in a silken cocoon within the mine, that causes the mine to bulge somewhat. The cocoon is connected by a silken tube to the spot in the lower epidermis where the imago is to appear.

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