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Ectoedemia arcuatella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Ectoedemia
Species:	E. arcuatella
Binomial name
	Ectoedemia arcuatella; (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
Synonyms
	Nepticula arcuatella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855; Nepticula arcuata Frey, 1856; Nepticula arcuosella Doubleday, 1859;

Ectoedemia arcuatella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Iberian Peninsula, east to and the Volga and Ural regions of Russia.

The wingspan is about 5 mm.The head is ochreous-yellowish to fuscous. The antennal eyecaps are white. The forewings are blackish with an oblique somewhat curved shining silvery fascia in the middle. The outer half of cilia beyond a blackish line are grey whitish. The hindwings are grey.^[1] van Nieukerken provides a key and description. ^[2]v^[3]

Adults are on wing from June to July.

The larvae feed on Fragaria moschata, Fragaria vesca, Fragaria viridis, Potentilla erecta and Potentilla sterilis. They mine the leaves of their host plant.^[4] ^[5]

References

^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London
^ van Nieukerken, E. J. (1985): A taxonomic revision of the Western Palaearctic species of the subgenera Zimmermannia Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae), with nothes on their phylogeny. Tijdschrift voor entomologie 128: 1-164.pdf
^ Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Nepticulidae (Stigmellidae); in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987
^ Emmet, A. M., 1976. Nepticulidae. — In: J. Heath (ed.). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 1: 171—267, pls. 1—7, 11, 12.
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