Ectoedemia minimella

Ectoedemia minimella
	Ectoedemia minimella, Trawscoed, North Wales
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Ectoedemia
Species:	E. minimella
Binomial name
	Ectoedemia minimella; (Zetterstedt, 1839)
Synonyms
	Trifurcula minimella Zetterstedt, 1839; Nepticula viridicola Weber, 1937; Nepticula woolhopiella Stainton, 1887; Nepticula mediofasciella (auct.); Nepticula canadensis Braun, 1914;

Ectoedemia minimella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widely distributed in the Holarctic.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Erik J van Nieukerken; Camiel Doorenweerd; Robert J B Hoare; Donald R Davis (31 October 2016). "Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea)". ZooKeys. 628 (628): 65–246. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.628.9799. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5126388. PMID 27917038. Wikidata Q28109648.
^ Gregory R. Pohl; Jean-François Landry; Christian Schmidt; et al. (2018). Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Series Faunistica. Vol. 118. ISBN 978-954-642-909-4. OL 32898597M. Wikidata Q97158808.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Ectoedemia minimella [Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae] in Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects". www.ukflymines.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
^ ^a ^b "Ectoedemia minimella | UKmoths". www.ukmoths.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
^ ^a ^b Erik van Nieukerken; Aleš Laštůvka; Zdeněk Laštůvka (8 January 2010). "Western Palaearctic Ectoedemia (Zimmermannia) Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): five new species and new data on distribution, hostplants and recognition". ZooKeys. 32 (32): 1–82. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.32.282. ISSN 1313-2989. Wikidata Q21191520.

External links[edit]

Media related to Ectoedemia minimella at Wikimedia Commons
Fauna Europaea
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Ectoedemia minimella at UKMoths
Swedish moths
Ectoedemia minimella images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

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[Nieukerken2016-1] Erik J van Nieukerken; Camiel Doorenweerd; Robert J B Hoare; Donald R Davis (31 October 2016). "Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea)". ZooKeys. 628 (628): 65–246. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.628.9799. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5126388. PMID 27917038. Wikidata Q28109648.

[Pohl2018-2] Gregory R. Pohl; Jean-François Landry; Christian Schmidt; et al. (2018). Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Series Faunistica. Vol. 118. ISBN 978-954-642-909-4. OL 32898597M. Wikidata Q97158808.

[:0-3] "Ectoedemia minimella [Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae] in Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects". www.ukflymines.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-08.

[:1-4] "Ectoedemia minimella | UKmoths". www.ukmoths.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-08.

[Nieukerken2010-5] Erik van Nieukerken; Aleš Laštůvka; Zdeněk Laštůvka (8 January 2010). "Western Palaearctic Ectoedemia (Zimmermannia) Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): five new species and new data on distribution, hostplants and recognition". ZooKeys. 32 (32): 1–82. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.32.282. ISSN 1313-2989. Wikidata Q21191520.

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