Ectoedemia albibimaculella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to Italy.
Ectoedemia albibimaculella | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nepticulidae |
Genus: | Ectoedemia |
Species: | E. albibimaculella |
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Ectoedemia albibimaculella (Larsen, 1927) | |
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The wingspan is 5–6 mm.
The larvae feed on Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a slender gallery that eventually enters a petiole, from where it enters a bud. The larva hibernates in the bud, that is eaten out in spring. Then the larva bores in a young shoot, sometimes diverting into a leaf that then is completely mined out. Pupation takes place in a dark yellow cocoon inside the mine.
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