Ectoedemia alnifoliae

Ectoedemia alnifoliae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the Troödos mountains on Cyprus, Greece (Samos) and southern Turkey.

Ectoedemia alnifoliae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Ectoedemia
Species:	E. alnifoliae
Binomial name
Ectoedemia alnifoliae van Nieukerken, 1985

The wingspan is about 6.6 mm. Adults are on wing in April. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Quercus alnifolia and Quercus coccifera. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow, much contorted, corridor that widens into a large blotch against the leaf margin.

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  Mine and larvae on Quercus coccifera
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  Male genitalia
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  Female genitalia
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  Female terminal abdominal segment

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