Fomoria septembrella (Stainton, 1849)

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 : 167

54. Fomoria septembrella (Stainton, 1849) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 122, 123 )

Host-plants. Unknown in the Crimea; probably Hypericum spp. as in other regions.

Type of distribution (chorological group). West-Palaearctic; the species is widespread in Europe, also known from the Caucasus ( Georgia and Azerbaijan) and Central Asia ( Turkmenistan: Kopet Dag).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 4♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 31.vii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide no. AN 521♂.

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

Figures

FIGURES 122 – 125. Genitalia of the Nepticulidae species occurring in the Crimea. 122, Fomoria septembrella, male genital capsule slide no. AN 519; 123, same, phallus, genitalia slide no. AN 521; 124, Acalyptris platani, male genitalia slide no. AN 500; 125, same, female genitalia slide no. RA 237.