Western Palaearctic Ectoedemia (Zimmermannia) Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): five new species and new data on distribution, hostplants and recognition
Author
van Nieukerken, Erik
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Author
Laštůvka, Aleš
Mendel University of Agriculture & Forestry, Brno ,, Czech Republic
Author
Laštůvka, Zdeněk
Mendel University of Agriculture & Forestry, Brno ,, Czech Republic
text
ZooKeys
2010
2010-01-08
32
32
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82
journal article
10.3897/zookeys.32.282
d33a3344-7f9a-4028-8569-2b7643d9b43f
1313–2970
576594
9CACC88D-12A3-4FEC-948E-90365B649BB6
Subgenus
Zimmermannia
Zimmermannia
Hering, 1940: 266
.
Type
species
Ectoedemia liebwerdella
Zimmermann, 1940: 264
by original designation and monotypy.
Diagnosis
.
Most species relatively large for
Nepticulidae
, wingspan
6–10 mm
. Colour pattern either absent or restricted to small dorsal spot and rarely a costal spot. Vestiture often rather dark brownish. Males often with conspicuous humeral lobe on hindwing around hairpencil, females often with very hairy abdominal tip. Pale headed species may resemble
Trifurcula
species, but males of those always with velvet patch of raised scales on hindwing underside or black androconials on forewing underside (in
T. (Glaucolepis) melanoptera
Van Nieukerken & Puplesis, 1991
). In females genitalia dissection may be necessary when the venation is not clearly seen.