Ectoedemia (Ectoedemia) mahalebella
Creators: name: van Nieukerken, Erik
name: Laštůvka, Aleš
name: Laštůvka, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nepticulidae
Ectoedemia
Ectoedemia mahalebella

description: <i>Ectoedemia (Ectoedemia) mahalebella</i> (Klimesch) <b>Biology.</b> Hostplants: <i>Prunus</i> spp., particularly <i>P. mahaleb</i> L., further <i>P. cocomilia</i> Ten. (Greece), <i>P. tenella</i> Batsch (Hungary), <i>P. fruticosa</i> Pallas, <i>P. avium</i> L., <i>P. cerasus</i> L., <i>Prunus cerasifera</i> Ehrh. (new record), <i>P. domestica</i> L. and <i>P. spinosa</i> L. (new record). On many hosts, confusion with mines of <i>E. spinosella</i> is possible, as happened with records from France, Les Prés which were partly misidentified as <i>spinosella</i> (see there). In this particular locality <i>E. mahalebella</i> was common on <i>Prunus mahaleb</i>, but also occurred on <i>P. spinosa</i> and <i>P. domestica</i>. Leafmines of <i>E. mahalebella</i> occur more often away from the midrib, near leaf margin, but this character is not absolute (see Van Nieukerken 1985). Univoltine in much of its area, bivoltine further south. Larvae in June (Greece) and again in July to November. Adults fly in May-August, the latter probably of the second generation. <b>Distribution.</b> Widespread in southern half of Europe, but not yet found in Iberian Peninsula, northernmost record in northern France: Dun sur Meuse (Van Nieukerken et al. 2006). Switzerland: Sauter and Whitebread 2005; Czech Republic, Slovakia: Lašt&amp;uring;vka and Lašt&amp;uring;vka 1990b; Bulgaria: Tomov and Pelov 1998. <b>Material.</b> <b>Croatia:</b> 2♁, 4&amp;female;, Krk, Draga Baska; Kampelje and Misucaynica, 6.VII.1976, 30.VII.1986, 13.VIII.2004, 17.VIII.2007, 27.VII.2008, G. Baldizzone, E. Jäckh (GB, RMNH, USNM). <b>Greece:</b> 1♁, Larissa, Stomio, 9.VI.1999, <i>Prunus cerasifera,</i> e.l. vii.1997, A. &amp; Z. Lašt&amp;uring;vka (AL).
description: Published as part of <i>van Nieukerken, Erik, Laštůvka, Aleš &amp; Laštůvka, Zdeněk, 2010, Western Palaearctic Ectoedemia (Zimmermannia) Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): five new species and new data on distribution, hostplants and recognition, pp. 1-82 in ZooKeys 32 (32)</i> on page 71, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.32.282, http://zenodo.org/record/576594
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