Stigmella perpygmaeella (Doubleday, 1859)

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 : 163

35. Stigmella perpygmaeella (Doubleday, 1859)

( Fig. 98 )

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

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Spain and Great Britain to Finland, central European Russia and Greece.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, 23.vii.1987, at light, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AG 108♂; 1♂, the same locality, at light, 12.vii.1987, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. AN 204♂; 2♂, Yalta, Mountain Forest Reserve, mining larva on Crataegus sp., fieldwork card no. 5042, 19.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 498♂.

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

Figures

FIGURES 98 – 101. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 98, S. perpygmaeella, genitalia slide no. AN 498; 99, S. splendidissimella, genitalia slide no. AN 533; 100, S. plagicolella, genitalia slide no. AN 492; 101, S. basiguttella, genitalia slide no. AN 518.