Stigmella malella (Stainton, 1854)

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 : 158

20. Stigmella malella (Stainton, 1854) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 32 , 82 )

Host-plants. Malus domestica Borkh. in the Crimea; in other regions also M. sylvestris Mill. , occasionally Prunus spp.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Portugal and Ireland to Finland, the southern Ural, and Greece. Records from the Caucasus ( Georgia) need to be viewed with caution (Puplesis & Diškus 2003).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 1♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5023, 14 –17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 526♂; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5023, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5023, 07.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: widespread and abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 32 – 39. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 32, S. malella on Malus domestica; 33, S. rhamnella on Rhamnus cathartica; 34, 35, S. viscerella on Ulmus sp.; 36, S. ulmivora on Ulmus sp.; 37, S. ulmiphaga on Ulmus sp.; 38, 39, S. rolandi on Rosa canina.

FIGURES 82 – 85. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 82, S. malella, genitalia slide no. AN 526; 83, S. rhamnella, capsule, genitalia slide no. AN 509; 84, same, phallus; 85, S. viscerella, genitalia slide no. AN 504.