Ectoedemia luisae
| Ectoedemia luisae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Ectoedemia |
| Species: | E. luisae |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectoedemia luisae (Klimesch, 1978) | |
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Ectoedemia luisae is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found in Turkey.
The larvae feed on Hypericum calycinum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a thin and tortuous corridor that is almost entirely filled with frass. The corridor widens into a blotch. Here the frass is found in the centre. Pupation takes place in a silken cocoon within the mine, that causes the mine to bulge somewhat. The cocoon is connected by a silken tube to the spot in the lower epidermis where the imago is to appear.
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