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Ectoedemia contorta

Description

52. Ectoedemia contorta van Nieukerken, 1985

(Figs 118, 119)

Host-plants. Unknown in the Crimea; possibly Quercus spp, as in other regions.

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♂.

Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and not abundant (no leaf-mines, collected at light only).

Notes

Published as part of Navickaitė, Asta, Diškus, Arūnas & Stonis, Jonas R., 2014, An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe, pp. 151-202 in Zootaxa 3847 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/251666

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nepticulidae
Genus
Ectoedemia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
contorta
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Nieukerken, E. J. van. (1985) A taxonomic revision of the Western Palaearctic species of the subgenera Zimmermannia Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae), with notes on their phylogeny. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 128 (1), 1 - 164.