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Ectoedemia castaneae Busck, 1913

American chestnut moth

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Ectodemia castaneae Busck, 1913

 

Now considered a synonym of Zimmermannia bosquella (Van Nieukerken et al., 2016).

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym) (Van Nieukerken et al., 2016)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Busck, A. (1913). Two microlepidoptera injurious to Chestnut. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 15(3): 102-104.

 

Other references:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. (1990). IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Van Nieukerken, E. J., Doorenweerd, C., Hoare, R. J. B. and Davis, D. R. (2016). Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea). ZooKeys 628: 65-246. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.628.9799

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Ectodemia castaneae. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 25 May 2013.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (2018). Ectoedemia castaneae (amended version of 1996 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T7028A134978019. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T7028A134978019.en. Downloaded on 25 November 2018.

https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1216484/Zimmermannia_bosquella

 

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