Ectoedemia vivesi
Ectoedemia vivesi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from Spain and Cyprus.
Taxonomy
Ectoedemia vivesi was formally described in 2009 as Ectoedemia ''vivesi'' based on a male specimen collected in Málaga, Spain in 1994. It is named after Antonio Vives Moreno, who supported the studies of the scientists who described the species.Description
Adult males have a forewing length of 2.8 mm and a wingspan of 6.0–6.2 mm. The frontal tuft and collar of the head are black, the scape is white. The antennae are dark greyish-brown with 49–51 segments. The thorax is greyish-brown and has dark scales on the front of the body. The forewing is mainly greyish-ochreous, covered densely with brownish black scales, nearly continuously in the basal half. The cilia is greyish-ochreous, with an indistinct cilia-line. The underside is grey. The hindwing and its cilia are dark grey. The hair-pencils are pale grey-brown and measure about one third of the length of the wing. In Cypriot specimens, they are bordered with fuscous scales. The abdomen is grey-brown and the legs are ochreous-grey. There is no costal emargination.Ectoedemia vivesi is similar in appearance to Ectoedemia hispanica, but has a greyish-brown thorax and pale grey-brown hair-pencils on the hindwing. Its male genitalia are very different from all other Zimmermannia species, differing by presence of only one pair of ventral carinae and simple triangular valvae.