Ectoedemia obrutella sensu Wilkinson & Newton, 1981
Nepticula bosqueella Chambers, 1878
Nepticula bosquella Chambers, 1878
Opostega bosqueella (Chambers, 1878)
Zimmermannia bosquella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky in the United States. It is now classified as conspecific with the American chestnut moth, which was formerly considered as extinct.[2]
Description
The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The larvae are full grown in October and early November, producing adults in May and June of the following year.
The moth's synergistic relationship with the North American nut species led to a catastrophic population decline when almost all of the American chestnut trees fell victim to chestnut blight. The American chestnut tree was driven almost to extinction, and the American chestnut moth was thought to be extinct.[3][4] The American chestnut tree moth was later found to still be extant within populations of Zimmermannia bosquella.[5]
^World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 2018. Ectoedemia castaneae (amended version of 1996 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T7028A134978019. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T7028A134978019.en. Downloaded on 05 August 2020.
^Opler, P. A. (1978, January). Insects of American chestnut: possible importance and conservation concern. In The American chestnut symposium (pp. 83-85). Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University Press.
^Thompson, H. (2012). The chestnut resurrection. Nature, 490(7418), 22.
