Stigmella crataegella (Klimesch, 1936)

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 : 157

16. Stigmella crataegella (Klimesch, 1936) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 28, 29 , 78 )

Host-plants. Crataegus orientalis M. Bieb. in the Crimea; in other regions also other species of Crataegus .

Type of distribution (chorological group)West-Palaearctic; the species is widespread in Europe, also occurs in western Asia (the western Caucasus and Turkmenistan).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 2♂, 3♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on Crataegus orientalis M. Bieb. , fieldwork card no. 5016, 12 –24.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 476♂; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, empty leaf-mines on Crataegus orientalis M. Bieb. , fieldwork card no. 5016, 15.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė.

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

Figures

FIGURES 24 – 31. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 24, 25, 27, S. torminalis on Sorbus torminalis; 26, S. hahniella on S. torminalis; 28, 29, S. crataegiella on Crataegus sp.; 30, S. desperatella on Malus domestica; 31, S. hybnerella on Crataegus sp.

FIGURES 78 – 81. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 78, S. crataegella, genitalia slide no. AN 476; 79, S. hahniella, genitalia slide no. AN 523; 80, S. hybnerella, genitalia slide no. AN 481; 81, S. catharticella, genitalia slide no. AN 480.