''Ectoedemia septembrella'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located enti ...

, east to the eastern part of the

Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Si ...

. It is also found in the Near East. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan ...

is 5–6 mm. The head is ferruginous to ochreous with a whitish collar. The antennal eyecaps are whitish. The posterior tarsi are whitish. The forewings are dark fuscous, somewhat pale-sprinkled and with a subtriangular whitish tornal spot; tips of apical cilia whitish. The hindwings are grey. Adults are on wing in May and June and again in August. The larvae feed on '' Hypericum bupleuroides'', ''

Hypericum caprifolium ''Hypericum caprifolium'' is a perennial herb in the family Hypericaceae. It is the type species of subsect. ''Caprifolia'' in the section ''Adenosepalum''. References caprifolium {{Hypericum-stub ...

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Hypericum hircinum ''Hypericum hircinum'' is a species of perennial flowering plant in the St John's wort family, Hypericaceae. It is known as goat St John's wort and stinking tutsan; both names refer to the plant's distinctive odor. The species is a bushy shrub t ...

'', '' Hypericum hirsutum'', ''

Hypericum hookerianum ''Hypericum hookerianum'', or Hooker's St. John's Wort, is a perennial shrub in the flowering plant family Hypericaceae native to eastern and southern Asia. The specific name ''hookerianum'' is named for William Jackson Hooker. Description '' ...

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Hypericum inodorum ''Hypericum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae (formerly considered a subfamily of Clusiaceae). The genus has a nearly worldwide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. Many ''H ...

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Hypericum maculatum ''Hypericum maculatum'', commonly known as imperforate St John's-wort, or spotted St. Johnswort, is a species of perennial herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad catego ...

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Hypericum montanum ''Hypericum montanum'' is a plant species in the genus '' Hypericum'' commonly known as pale St. John's-wort or mountain St. John's wort. It is native to Eurasia and Morocco in North Africa. Description ''Hypericum montanum'' are normally from ...

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Hypericum nummularium ''Hypericum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae (formerly considered a subfamily of Clusiaceae). The genus has a nearly worldwide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. Many ''Hype ...

'', '' Hypericum patulum'', ''

Hypericum perforatum ''Hypericum perforatum'', known as St. John's wort, is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae and the type species of the genus '' Hypericum''. Possibly a hybrid between '' H. maculatum'' and '' H. attenuatum'', the species can be found ...

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Hypericum rhodoppeum ''Hypericum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae (formerly considered a subfamily of Clusiaceae). The genus has a nearly worldwide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. Many ...

'', '' Hypericum serpyllifolium'', '' Hypericum tetrapterum'', ''

Hypericum undulatum ''Hypericum undulatum'', the wavy St Johns Wort, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to western Europe and northern Africa. The specific name ''undulatum'' is Latin, meaning "wavy" or "undulated", referring, just as the common name, ...

''. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Emmet, A. M., 1976. Nepticulidae. — In: J. Heath (ed.). ''

The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland ''The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland'' (abbreviated to ''MBGBI'' or ''MOGBI'') is a multi-volume reference work on the Lepidoptera of the British Isles. The original publisher of this series was Curwen Books who published vol ...

'' 1: 171—267, pls. 1—7, 11, 12.

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Consortium for the Barcode of Life The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification. CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of ...

Nepticulidae Moths described in 1849 Moths of Asia Moths of Europe Taxa named by Henry Tibbats Stainton {{Ectoedemia-stub