Stigmella prunetorum (Stainton, 1855)

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 : 155-156

10. Stigmella prunetorum (Stainton, 1855)

( Figs 20, 21 , 68 )

Host-plants. Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. and P. spinosa L. in the Crimea; in other regions also Cerasum spp.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Great Britain and Italy to central European Russia, the western Caucasus, and Greece.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 18.vii.1987, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. AN 202♂; 2♂, the same locality, empty leaf-mines on Prunus spinosa L. and Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. , fieldwork card no. 5011, 14 –25.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; the same locality, at light, 31.vii.2011. leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 2♂, the same locality, at light, 31.vii.2011. leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; Simferopol, empty leaf-mines on Prunus spinosa L., fieldwork card no. 5011, 12.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Prunus spinosa L., fieldwork card no. 5011, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 8 km S Sudak, Novyi Svit, empty leaf-mines on Prunus spinosa L., fieldwork card no. 5011, 18.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; Feodosiya, empty leaf-mines on Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. , fieldwork card no. 5011, 05.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 49 km S Simferopol, Alushta, empty leaf-mines on Prunus spinosa L., fieldwork card no. 5011, 08.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines on Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. , fieldwork card no. 5011, 09.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

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

Figures

FIGURES 16 – 23. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 16, S. microtheriella on Carpinus orientalis; 17, S. glutinosae on Alnus glutinosa; 18, 19, S. alnetella on Alnus glutinosa; 20, 21, S. prunetorum on Prunus cerasifera (20) and P. spinosa (21); 22, S. aceris on Acer campestre; 23, S. paradoxa on Crataegus monogyna.

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.