Ectoedemia atricollis

Ectoedemia atricollis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Scandinavia to the Pyrenees, Italy, and Romania and from Ireland to Ukraine and the Volga and Ural regions of Russia. It has also been recorded from Tajikistan, where it is probably an introduced species.

Mined apple leaf
Larva

Ectoedemia atricollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nepticulidae
Genus:
Ectoedemia
Species:
E. atricollis
Binomial name
Ectoedemia atricollis
(Stainton, 1857)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula atricollis Stainton, 1857
  • Nepticula aterrima Wocke, 1865
  • Nepticula atricolella Doubleday, 1859
  • Nepticula staphyleae Zimmermann, 1944

The wingspan is 5–6 mm. Adults are on wing in June.Edward Meyrick describes it thus - Head ferruginous-orange, collar dark brown. Antennal eyecaps white. Forewings black a shining silvery sometimes interrupted fascia slightly beyond middle; outer half of cilia beyond a black line white. Hindwings grey. Larvae pale greenish; head and plate of 2 blackish.[1]

The larvae feed on Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus monogyna, Malus domestica, Malus sylvestris, Mespilus germanica, Pyrus communis, Prunus avium, Prunus cerasifera, Prunus insititia, Prunus mahaleb and Staphylea pinnata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a full depth corridor that gradually widens into an irregular elliptic blotch. The corridor generally follows the leaf margin over a long distance. The frass is blackish brown in the corridor and black in the blotch. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.

References
  1. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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