Ectoedemia subbimaculella

Ectoedemia subbimaculella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe, east to Smolensk, Kaluganorth and the Volga and Ural regions of Russia.

Damage ("green island"

Ectoedemia subbimaculella
Imago Hertfordshire, England
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Ectoedemia
Species:	E. subbimaculella
Binomial name
Ectoedemia subbimaculella (Haworth, 1828)
Synonyms
Tinea subbimaculella Haworth, 1828 Dechtiria subbimaculella (Haworth, 1828) Stigmella subbimaculella (Haworth, 1828) Nepticula bistrimaculella Heyden, 1861 Nepticula cursoriella Zeller, 1848 Microsetia nigrociliella Stephens, 1834

The wingspan is 5–6 mm. The head is orange. The antennal eyecaps are whitish. The forewings are dark fuscous with an ochreous-whitish small basal spot, another on middle of the costa, and a larger triangular spot on the dorsum before tornus; tips of apical cilia whitish. The hindwings are grey.^{[1][2] [3][4]}

The larvae feed on Castanea sativa, Quercus frainetto, Quercus macranthera, Quercus petraea, Quercus pubescens, Quercus pyrenaica, Quercus robur and Quercus rubra. ^[5] They mine the leaves of their host plant. Pupation takes place outside of the mine. Adults fly in June and July.