Stigmella ulmiphaga (Preissecker, 1942)

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 : 159

24. Stigmella ulmiphaga (Preissecker, 1942)

( Figs 37 , 87 )

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

Type of distribution (chorological group). West-Palaearctic; the species occurs from Austria and Slovakia to Greece, southern European Russia (Volgograd, Astrakhan) and western part of Central Asia ( Turkmenistan).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 4♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 12–26.viii.2009, leg. A. Remeikis & J. R. Stonis, genitalia slide nos RA 244♂, RA 248♂, RA 249♂; 6♂, the same locality, empty leaf-mines on Ulmus sp., fieldwork card no. 5060, 23.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Ulmus sp. fieldwork card no. 5060, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 3♀, Feodosiya, mining larvae on Ulmus sp., fieldwork card no. 5060, 05.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide no. AN 506♂; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines on Ulmus sp., 09.viii.2011, J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

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

Figures

FIGURES 32 – 39. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 32, S. malella on Malus domestica; 33, S. rhamnella on Rhamnus cathartica; 34, 35, S. viscerella on Ulmus sp.; 36, S. ulmivora on Ulmus sp.; 37, S. ulmiphaga on Ulmus sp.; 38, 39, S. rolandi on Rosa canina.

FIGURES 86 – 89. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 86, S. ulmivora, genitalia slide no. AN 505; 87, S. ulmiphaga, genitalia slide no. AN 506; 88, S. thuringiaca, capsule, genitalia slide no. AN 490; 89, same, phallus.