4.1 BF35 - Nepticulidae - Nepticulinae - Ectoedemia minimella - Barred Birch Dot

4.1 BF35 - Nepticulidae - Nepticulinae - Ectoedemia minimella - Barred Birch Dot - (Zetterstedt, 1839)

Adult Micro: CAT 4 - Gen. Det. Required -

Leaf-miner: CAT L - The leaf or a Photo required -

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- Uncertain/Unknown - Insufficient Data - Leaf Miner

Taxonomy: Micro >> Nepticulidae

Other Name/s: Broken-barred Pigmy

ID Difficulty: Red

- difficult to identify - detailed examination required, often a Gen Det and/or specimen and quality photographs are required.
Confusion Species: Ectoedemia occultella

ID pointers: A small blackish-grey colour with a central whitish band at halfway running vertically. Also whitish eye-caps

Distribution: (Last record: 2023 at Carver's Rocks ) - Uncertain in the county due to insufficient data – one record from 2023

Flight Period: May / June / - One generation May-June

Mine Period: July / August / September / - The larvae mine the leaves of Birch, beginning as a contorted gallery, when the young larva can be seen to have dark plates on each segment. These plates are later lost and the gallery becomes a blotch with scattered frass.

Moth Activity: Cathemeral - occasionally attracted to light

Photographed: No - Photographed By: Not Recorded

*** Last updated on 18 February 2025 by TD ***

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Wingspan: 5-6mm

Food Plant: Birch and Hazel

Last Recorded Year: 2023

Last Recorded By: Graham Finch

Last Recorded General Area: Carver's Rocks

No First Date Information Recorded

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