Glaucolepis melanoptera

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 : 169

61. Glaucolepis melanoptera (van Nieukerken & Puplesis, 1991)

( Figs 134–136 )

Host-plant. Unknown. Probably Prunus spp. (incl. P. spinosa L.).

Type of distribution (chorological group). West-Palaearctic; the species occurs from Spain and Italy to Greece, Crimea, Slovakia, Armenia, and Turkmenistan.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 15.vii.1987, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AN217; 2♂, the same locality, at light, 22.vii.1987, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide nos AN 210♂, AN 213♂; 1♂, the same locality, at light, 11.vii.1988, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. RA 261♂; 1♂, 12–26.viii.2009, leg. A. Remeikis & J. R. Stonis, genitalia slide no. RA 258♂; 21♂, the same locality, at light, 23.vii–04.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 2♂, the same locality, at light, 24.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis & S. Hill.

Remarks. The species is common in the Crimea: widespread and very abundant (no mines, collected only at light).

Figures

FIGURES 134 – 137. Male genitalia of the Glaucolepis species occurring in the Crimea. 134, Glaucolepis melanoptera, capsule, genitalia slide no. AN 213; 135, same, phallus; 136, same, capsule with phallus inside, genitalia slide no. RA 258; 137, G. bleonella, genitalia slide no. RA 259.