Ectoedemia minimella
Species of moth
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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 | |
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| Ectoedemia minimella, Trawscoed, North Wales | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Ectoedemia |
| Species: | E. minimella |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectoedemia minimella (Zetterstedt, 1839) | |
| Synonyms | |
The wingspan is 5–6 mm.[4] The head hair and collar are black, the eyecups white. The antennae are grey and about half the forewing length. The forewings are black with a silvery transverse band. The hindwings are grey[5][6]
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The larvae are leaf miners and feed on species of birch, alder, and hazel.[7][3] Pupation takes place outside of the mine.[3] Adults are on wing from May to June with one generation per year.[7]
This species was first described by Swedish naturalist Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt in 1839.[1]
