Ectoedemia rosae

Ectoedemia rosae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Ectoedemia
Species:	E. rosae
Binomial name
Ectoedemia rosae Van Nieukerken, 2011

Ectoedemia rosae is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found in France (Briançon area) and Norway (Vang).

The wingspan is 4.5–4.7 mm for males and 5.0–5.2 mm for females. The forewings are dark fuscous and coarsely scaled. The hindwings are grey brown.^[1] There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Rosa tomentosa and probably Rosa majalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a much contorted narrow gallery in the underside of the parenchyma, with a thick line of broken brown to black frass. Later, the frass becomes more dispersed and black. In the last instar, the mine suddenly enlarges in a roundish or elongate blotch and becomes a full depth mine. Often, several mines are found on a single leaflet. The exit-slit is located on the upper side. Pupation takes place in a dark fuscous cocoon, spun on leaf litter.

Etymology

The species is named after the host plant genus.

References

1. Ectoedemia rosae, a new species with disjunct distribution in the French Alps and Norway (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae)