Ectoedemia albibimaculella

Ectoedemia albibimaculella
Ectoedemia albibimaculella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species: E. albibimaculella
Binomial name
Ectoedemia albibimaculella
(Larsen, 1927)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula albibimaculella Larsen, 1927

Ectoedemia albibimaculella is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found from Fennoscandia to Italy.

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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