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.