Ectoedemia suberis (Stainton, 1869)
Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae

Quercus cocifera, Greece, Rhodes; from Klimesch (19789b)
mine
Egg at the upperside of the leaf. The mine is a narrow corridor, filled with frass, that abruptly widens into a large, oval, upper-surface blotch with frass concentrated in its basal part and along the sides.
hostplants
Fagaceae, monophagous
Quercus coccifera, ilex, rotundifolia, suber.
Next to these evergreen oaks possibly also on the semi-evergreen Q. faginea.
phenology
The larvae are active in winter, from about Janury till March; after having left the mine they aestivate as larva or pupa in a cocoon.
distribution within Europe
Southern France, Iberia, Corsica, Sardinia (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
larva
Dirty green, with conspicuous brown ganglia; ventral plates absent.
synonyms
Nepticula, Stigmella suberis; Nepticula, Stigmella viridella Mendes, 1910.
references
Hering (1934a, 1936b, 1957a), Klimesch (1978b), A & Z Laštuvka (1997a, van Nieukerken (1985a, 1986a), van Nieukerken, A & Z Laštuvka (2004a, 2006a, 2010a), Skala (1939a), Triberti & Braggio (2011a).
18/10/2014