Stigmella obliquella (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 : 161

29. Stigmella obliquella (Heinemann, 1862) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 44, 45 , 95 )

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

Type of distribution (chorological group). Trans-Palaearctic; the species is widespread in Europe, also occurs in Russian Far East (Primorskiy Kray).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 4♂, 2♀, 49 km S Simferopol, Alushta, mining larva on Salix sp., fieldwork card no. 5065, 08.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide no. AN 501♂; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines, fieldwork card no. 5065, 09.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varači nskas.

Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: widespread (mostly along streams and rivers) and abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 40 – 47. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 40, 41, S. trimaculella on Populus sp.; 42, 43, S. salicis on Salix caprea; 44, 45, S. obliquella on Salix sp.; 46, 47, S. tityrella on Fagus sylvatica.

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.