Trupanea stellata (Fuessly, 1775)

Material examined. Desertas: Ilhéu Chão (3 females, 1 male)

Remarks. Trupanea stellata is widely distributed all over the Palearctic (Norrbom et al. 1999). It breeds in a variety of Asteraceae (White 1988) . In Madeira archipelago, it is one of the rarest species, being restricted to the Desertas Islands, where it was previously known from Deserta Grande (Smit 2006) and was now reported from Ilhéu Chão.