Stigmella paliurella Gerasimov, 1937

Navickaitė, Asta, Diškus, Arūnas & Stonis, Jonas R., 2014, An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe, Zootaxa 3847 (2), pp. 151-202 : 154

6. Stigmella paliurella Gerasimov, 1937

( Figs 15 , 66 )

Host-plants. Paliurus spina-christi Mill. in the Crimea; in Central Asia Ziziphus jujuba Mill. (Puplesis & Diškus 2003) .

Type of distribution (chorological group). West-Palaeractic; the species occurs from southern Europe to the eastern Caucasus ( Azerbaijan) and western part of Central Asia ( Turkmenistan: Kopet Dag) ( Puplesis 1994, Puplesis & Diškus 2003).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 21.viii.1987, leg. Yu. Budashkin, 2♂, the same locality, at light, 12–19.vii.1987, leg. R. Puplesis; 3♂, the same locality, at light, 28.vi–15.vii.1988, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. RA 252♂; 1♂, the same locality, at light, 24.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis & S. Hill; 1♂, Yalta, Mys Martian, at light, 08.vii.1988, leg. R. Puplesis; 20♂, the same locality, at light, 23–31.vii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, empty leaf-mines on Paliurus spina-christi Mill. , fieldwork card no. 5062, 07.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varači nskas.

Remarks. The species is common in the Crimea: widespread and very abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 15. Leaf-mines of the Nepticulidae species occurring in the Crimea. 8, Stigmella confusella on Betula pendula; 9 – 10, S. irregularis on Pyrus elaeagnifolia; 11, Simplimorpha promissa on Cotinus coggygria; 12, 13, Stigmella freyella on Convolvulus arvensis; 14, S. tiliae on Tilia cordata; 15, S. paliurella on Paliurus spina-christi.

FIGURES 66 – 69. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 66, S. paliurella, genitalia slide no. RA 252; 67, S. glutinosae, genitalia slide no. AN 514; 68, S. prunetorum, genitalia slide no. AN 202; 69, S. aceris, genitalia slide no. AN 477.