Ectoedemia gymnosporiae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It was described by Vári in 1955. It is known from South Africa (it was described from Pretoria).[1]
Ectoedemia gymnosporiae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nepticulidae |
Genus: | Ectoedemia |
Species: | E. gymnosporiae
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Binomial name | |
Ectoedemia gymnosporiae (Vári, 1955)
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The larvae feed on Maytenus heterophylla.
References
edit- ^ "Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of the world". Archived from the original on 2012-08-12. Retrieved 2010-12-22.