50. Ectodemia rufifrontella (Caradja 1920)

(Figs 114–117)

Host-plants. Possibly Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. and Q. pubescens Willd. in the Crimea, as in other regions.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from France and Italy to Slovakia, Greece, and Crimea.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 2♂, 1♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 26.v–07.vi.1988, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide nos AN 201♂, AN 215♂, AN218♀.

Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: limited in distribution and not abundant (no leaf-mines were collected, at light only).