Stigmella carpinella (Heinemann, 1862)

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

32. Stigmella carpinella (Heinemann, 1862) (new to the Crimea)

( Fig. 48 )

Host-plants. Carpinus betulus L. and C. orientalis Mill. in the Crimea (as in other regions).

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterrnaean; the species occurs from Italy and Great Britain to Sweden, Greece and the western Caucasus ( Georgia).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, Dobroje, Krasnolissya, at light, 20.vi.1983, leg. Zagulaev; 1♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larva on Carpinus orientalis Mill. , fieldwork card no. 5027, 14.vii–01.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leafmines on Carpinus betulus L., fieldwork card no. 5027, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; Yalta, Mountain Forest Reserve and Botanical Garden, empty leaf-mines on Carpinus betulus L., fieldwork card no. 5027, 19.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 23 km S Simferopol, near Angarskij Pereval, empty leaf-mines on Carpinus betulus L., fieldwork card no. 5027, 21.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines on Carpinus orientalis Mill. , fieldwork card no. 5027, 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.