Etainia sericopeza (Zeller, 1839)

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 : 170

63. Etainia sericopeza (Zeller, 1839)

( Figs 60 , 140 )

Host-plant. Acer platanoides L. in the Crimea, as in other regions.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Nemoral; the species is widespread in Europe (except the southern regions), also recorded in North America ( Canada: Ontario; USA: Connecticut, New York) ( Wilkinson & Scoble 1979).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 2♀, 23 km S Simferopol, near Angarskij Pereval, mining larva on Acer platanoides L., fieldwork card no. 5049, 22.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus, genitalia slide no. AN 494♂.

Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution (occurs at higher elevations and in shady forests), not abundant mining.

Figures

FIGURES 56 – 61 Leaf-mines and fruit-mines of the Nepticulidae species occurring in the Crimea. 56, Stigmella plagicolella on Prunus spinosa; 57, Ectoedemia mahalebella on Prunus spinosa; 58, Trifurcula eurema on Lotus sp.; 59, Bohemannia pulverosella on Malus domestica; 60, Etainia sericopeza on Acer platanoides; 61, E. louisella on Acer campestre.

FIGURES 138 – 140. Male genitalia of the Glaucolepis and Etainia species occurring in the Crimea. 138, Glaucolepis bleonella, capsule, genitalia slide no. AN 211; 139, same, phallus; 140, Etainia sericopeza, genitalia slide no. AN 494.