Stigmella torminalis (Wood, 1890)

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

15. Stigmella torminalis (Wood, 1890) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 24, 25, 27 , 75, 76, 77 )

Host-plant. Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz. in the Crimea (as in other regions).

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species known from Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia and Crimea.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 14♂, 5♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz, fieldwork card no. 5036, 17.vii–04.viii.2011, leg. A. Diškus, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide nos AN 468♂, AN 524♂, AN 525♂; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leafmines on Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz, fieldwork card no. 5036, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus, A. Navickaitė.

Remarks. The species is very common in the Crimea: widespread and extremely 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 74 – 77. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 74, S. desperatella, genitalia slide no. AN 478; 75, S. torminalis, genitalia slide no. AN 523; 76, same, capsule without phallus, genitalia slide no. AN 467; 77, same, phallus.