Ectoedemia contorta
- Dataset
- An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nepticulidae
- genus
- Ectoedemia
- species
- Ectoedemia contorta
description
(Figs 118, 119) Host-plants. Unknown in the Crimea; possibly Quercus spp, as in other regions.
materials_examined
Type of distribution (chorological group). Sub-Mediterranean; the species occurs from Spain and Italy to Slovakia, Greece and Crimea. Material examined. CRIMEA: 1 ♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 31. v. 1988, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AG 110 ♂.
discussion
Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and not abundant (no leaf-mines, collected at light only).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ectoedemia contorta