Ectoedemia quinquella
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nepticulidae |
Genus: | Ectoedemia |
Species: | E. quinquella
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Binomial name | |
Ectoedemia quinquella (Bedell, 1848)
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Ectoedemia quinquella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Great Britain and France to Italy, Bulgaria and Greece.
The wingspan is 4.2-5.6 mm. Head dark fuscous. Antennal eyecaps whitish. Forewings dark bronzy-fuscous; a transverse spot on costa before middle, a triangular spot on dorsum before tornus, and a discal spot at 3/4 shining silvery white. Hindwings rather dark grey. Adults are on wing in the second half of June and early July. There is one generation per year.[1]
The larvae feed on Quercus petraea, Quercus pubescens and Quercus robur. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
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3rd instar larva on Quercus robur
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Male genitalia
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Female genitalia
References
[edit]- ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
[edit]- Fauna Europaea
- bladmineerders.nl
- A Taxonomic Revision Of The Western Palaearctic Species Of The Subgenera Zimmermannia Hering And Ectoedemia Busck s.str. (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae), With Notes On Their Phylogeny