Ectoedemia agrimoniae (Frey, 1858)

van Nieukerken, Erik J., Laštůvka, Aleš & Laštůvka, Zdenĕk, 2006, The Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of mainland France and Corsica: an annotated catalogue (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea), Zootaxa 1216 (1216), pp. 1-114 : 91

Ectoedemia agrimoniae (Frey, 1858)

F: Nepticula agrimoniella Herrich­Schaffer, 1860 ; Sand 1879: 201— 36; Le Marchand 1946a: 217— 17

Nepticula agrimoniae ; Jourdheuille 1883: 216— 10; Gélin & Lucas 1915: 137— 33, 40; Brown & Gouin 1917: 406— 33

Stigmella agrimoniae ; Lhomme [1963]: 1192 — 10, 17, 33, 36, 40, 46,

Ectoedemia agrimoniae ; Courtois 2001b: 14—57; Courtois 2002: 53— 57

Excluded records: Nepticula agrimoniae ; Joannis 1909: 822— 56; Gélin & Lucas 1915: 137 – 56 [ Ectoedemia angulifasciella ]

Stigmella agrimoniae ; Lhomme [1963]: 1192 — 56 [ Ectoedemia angulifasciella ], 77 [ Trifurcula headleyella ]

Trifurcula agrimoniae ; Gibeaux 1999: 20 —77 [ Trifurcula headleyella ]

Material. 10: 1♀, Les Riceys, 29.vi.1868, Jourdheuille; 17: 1♂, Saint­Palais­sur­Mer, 24.vii.1938, Le Marchand ( MNHN); 57 : 14♂, 9♀, TM , Apach: Hammersberg, 220–280 m, 1.x.2004, Agrimonia eupatoria , e.l. 2­9.vi.2005, EvN.

Remarks. Excluded records were based on specimens collected as adults, for which misidentification is more likely than for mines. We assume that records of mines are correct because they usually are easily recognised by the larva spinning its cocoon inside the mine. Until now we assumed that this species was univoltine with autumn larvae, but several records of larvae in July with adults emerging in August ( Brown & Gouin 1917) indicate that it is probably bivoltine.