Ectoedemia suberis

Ectoedemia suberis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in France, Corsica, Sardinia and North Africa. It has not been recorded from mainland Italy.

Ectoedemia suberis
Male and male hindwing
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Ectoedemia
Species:	E. suberis
Binomial name
Ectoedemia suberis (Stainton, 1869)
Synonyms
Nepticula suberis Stainton, 1869 Nepticula viridella Mendes, 1910

The wingspan is 6.4-7.2 mm. Adults are on wing from July to early October, but some specimens from Marbella were taken in June. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Quercus coccifera, Quercus ilex, Quercus ilex rotundifolia and Quercus suber. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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  Male genitalia
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  Leaf mines

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