60. Trifurcula eurema (Tutt, 1899) (new to the Crimea)

(Figs 58, 129)

Host-plants. Lotus sp. in the Crimea; in other regions also Dorycnium spp. and Tetragonolobus maritimus (L.) Roth.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Mediterranean; the species occurs from Spain, Italy and Great Britain to Sweden, Slovakia, Ukraine, Greece, and the Asiatic part of Turkey.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 2♀, 10 km E Sudak, near Pereval Sinor, mining larvae on Lotus sp., fieldwork card no. 5035, 15.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; mining larvae and epmty leaf-mines on Lotus sp., fieldwork card no. 5035, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 528♂.

Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and not abundant.