Ectoedemia minimella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widely distributed in the Holarctic.[1][2][3]
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Ectoedemia minimella, Trawscoed, North Wales | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nepticulidae |
Genus: | Ectoedemia |
Species: | E. minimella |
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Ectoedemia minimella (Zetterstedt, 1839) | |
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The wingspan is 5-6 mm.[4] Adults are black with whitish fascia and eyecaps.[4] Adults are on wing from May to June with one generation per year.[5]
The larvae are leaf miners and feed on species of birch, alder, and hazel.[5] The mine consists of a short tortuous corridor that widens into a blotch, often between two lateral veins, with scattered frass.[3] Pupation takes place outside of the mine.[3]
This species was first described by Swedish naturalist Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt in 1839.[1]
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