Stigmella lemniscella (Zeller, 1839)

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

33. Stigmella lemniscella (Zeller, 1839) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 50, 51 )

Host-plants. Ulmus spp. in the Crimea (as in other regions).

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species is widespread in Europe occurring from Spain and Ireland to Finland, central European Russia, Bulgaria, and the western Caucasus.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, empty leaf-mines on Ulmus sp., fieldwork card no. 5031, 14.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; 23 km S Simferopol, near Angarskij Pereval, empty leafmines on Ulmus sp., fieldwork card no. 5031, 22.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Ulmus sp., fieldwork card no. 5031, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; Yalta, Mountain Forest Reserve, empty leaf-mines on Ulmus sp., fieldwork card no. 5031, 19.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 49 km S Simferopol, Alushta, empty leaf-mines on Ulmus sp., fieldwork card no. 5031, 08.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

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