Stigmella incognitella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855), Herrich-Schaffer, 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 : 162

34. Stigmella incognitella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)

( Figs 49 , 96, 97 )

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

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Mediterranean; the species occurs from Portugal to northwestern and central Russia, Crimea, and Greece.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, Yalta, Mys Martian, at light, 08.vii.1988, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. AN 214♂; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5044, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5044, 09.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

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

Figures

FIGURES 48 – 55. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella and Acalyptris species occurring in the Crimea. 48, S. carpinella on Carpinus betulus; 49, S. incognitella on Malus domestica; 50, 51, S. lemniscella on Ulmus sp.; 52, S. splendidissimella on Geum sp.; 53, S. dorsigutella on Quercus pubescens, 54, 55, A. platani on Platanus sp.

FIGURES 94 – 97. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 94, S. trimaculella, genitalia slide no. AN 499; 95, S. obliquella, genitalia slide no. AN 501; 96, S. incognitella, capsule, genitalia slide no. AN 214; 97, same, phallus.