Ectoedemia hendrikseni

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Ectoedemia hendrikseni
Ectoedemia hendrikseni male and male hindwing.JPG
Male and male hindwing
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Ectoedemia
Species:
E. hendrikseni
Binomial name
Ectoedemia hendrikseni
A.Lastuvka, Z. Lastuvka & van Nieukerken, 2009

Ectoedemia hendrikseni is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from a small area in the Provence region in southern France (the Estérel Massif in the Alpes-Maritimes and Var).

The wingspan is 6-6.8 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June. An individual record in October may represent a (partial) second generation or a late emerging specimen.

The larvae have been reared on Quercus suber. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow, partly contorted gallery in the first half changes suddenly in a large blotch mine with two lateral bands of frass.

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