Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nepticulidae Scientific name Ectoedemia anguinella | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Ectoedemia Rank Species | |
Ectoedemia anguinella is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It was described by Clemens in 1864. It was described from Kentucky.
This species has only been known from the original description about the mine and larva feeding on a Quercus species. No type material was preserved. Because the larva is described as having ten square dark brown or blackish spots, this suggests that the species belongs to Ectoedemia. The black spots are lost by the time the final stage larva is reached. Therefore, the described mines also possibly also incomplete. The narrow serpentine tract which is filled or discoloured throughout its length by black excrement could, in a mature mine, have continued by opening into a blotch.
Clemens' original description corresponds in all points with the juvenile larva of Ectoedemia similella and therefore might be a synonym.