Ectoedemia agrimoniae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Greece, and from Great Britain to Ukraine.
| Ectoedemia agrimoniae | |
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| Final instar larvae and cocoons on Agrimonia eupatoria | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Ectoedemia |
| Species: | E. agrimoniae |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectoedemia agrimoniae (Frey, 1858) | |
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The wingspan is 4–6.4 mm. The head is ferruginous ochreousto brown, the collar dark brown. Antennal eyecaps are yellow - whitish. Forewings grey densely irrorated with blackish ; a narrow curved sometimes interrupted shining white fascia in middle ; outer half of cilia beyond a black line white. Hindwings light grey.[1] Adults are on wing from May to July. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Agrimonia eupatoria and Aremonia agrimonoides. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
References
External links
- 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