Ectoedemia aegilopidella

van Nieukerken, Erik, Laštůvka, Aleš & 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, ZooKeys 32 (32), pp. 1-82 : 33-34

44 aegilopidella

Leafmines (Fig. 65). Probably indistinguishable from the mine of E. suberis ; a narrow, partly contorted gallery in the first half changes suddenly in a large blotch mine with two lateral bands of frass.

Larva. Green.

Life history. Larvae collected in March, several weeks earlier than in E. suberis , most adults on the wing in May and June; an individual record in October may represent a (partial) second generation or a late emerging specimen. In this case the species flies together with E. suberis .

Distribution. Known from a small area in the Provence region in Southern France: the Estérel massif in the Alpes Maritimes and Var.

Etymology. Dedicated to the memory of Henning Hendriksen (Copenhagen) who collected this species for the first time; hendrikseni is a noun in the genitive. The ardent collector and specialist of microlepidoptera Hendriksen died in February 2009 at the age of 80.