Ectoedemia deschkai

Ectoedemia deschkai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Ectoedemia
Species:	E. deschkai
Binomial name
	Ectoedemia deschkai; (Klimesch, 1978)
Synonyms
	Fomoria deschkai Klimesch, 1978;

Ectoedemia deschkai is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Greece (the mainland and the Aegean Islands).

The larvae feed on Hypericum hircinum and Hypericum triquetrifolium. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow, mostly tortuous corridor that is almost filled with frass. The corridor widens into a blotch, with the frass concentrated in the centre. The blotch can overrun most of the older corridor. Pupation takes place within the mine, in an elongated silken cocoon. Before the pupation takes place, the larva makes a silken tube connecting the cocoon with the spot at the leaf underside where the adult moth appears.

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