Ectoedemia rubivora is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Serbia, and from Ireland to central Russia and Ukraine.
The wingspan is 4.6–6 mm. The head is black or sometimes a ferruginous-brown. The antennal eyecaps are white. The forewing ground colour is black and there is a somewhat bent shining silvery fascia hardly beyond middle; outer half of cilia beyond a black line whitish. Hindwings are grey.Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf Keys and descriptionlepiforum.de includes imagesEmmet, A. M., 1976. Nepticulidae. — In: J. Heath (ed.). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 1: 171—267, pls. 1—7, 11, 12.Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Nepticulidae (Stigmellidae); in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987
Adults are on wing from June to July. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Rubus arcticus, Rubus caesius, Rubus chamaemorus, Rubus fruticosus and Rubus saxatilis. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
References
External links Fauna Europaea bladmineerders.nl Ectoedemia rubivora at Naturhistoriska riksmuseet Ectoedemia rubivora images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life A Taxonomic Revision Of The Western Palaearctic Species Of The Subgenera Zimmermannia Hering And Ectoedemia Busck s.str. (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae), With Notes On Their Phylogeny