Ectoedemia suberis (Stainton, 1869) van Nieukerken, 1985

Yagi, Sadahisa, Hirano, Nagao & Hirowatari, Toshiya, 2019, Taxonomic notes on the Ectoedemia suberis and angulifasciella species groups in Japan (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae), Zootaxa 4706 (2), pp. 201-230 : 206-207

Ectoedemia suberis group

Species of this group mine leaves of Quercus species. The shape of the mines is a blotch, and the color of larvae is green. According to van Nieukerken (1985), the male genitalia of this species group have a large curved valva, one pair of single carinae, and a simple gnathos. Female genitalia are characterized by weak development of the vaginal sclerite and spiculate pouch, a globular bursa covered with pectinations, and wide, similar, oval signa.

This species group is distributed only in the Palearctic region. All species in the West Palearctic and the East Asiatic E. chasanella form monophyletic clusters with high bootstrap support ( van Nieukerken et al. 2012; Doorenweerd et al. 2015), while the phylogenetic position of other members of the suberis group ( E. ortiva and E. paraortiva ) is unknown.