Stigmella tiliae (Frey, 1856)

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 : 154

5. Stigmella tiliae (Frey, 1856) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 14 , 65 )

Host-plants. Tilia cordata Mill. in the Crimea; in other regions also other Tilia species.

Distribution. Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Spain and Great Britain to Sweeden, northwestern Russia and the western Caucasus ( Georgia: Abkhazia and Adzharia).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 1♀, Yalta, Mountain Forest Reserve, mining larvae on Tilia cordata Mill. , fieldwork card no. 5039, 19.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 493♂; mining larvae and empty leaf-mines on Tiliae cordara Mill., fieldwork card no. 5039, 21.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė.

Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea; despite the limited distribution (known from the Yalta Forest Reserve) it is rather very abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 15. Leaf-mines of the Nepticulidae species occurring in the Crimea. 8, Stigmella confusella on Betula pendula; 9 – 10, S. irregularis on Pyrus elaeagnifolia; 11, Simplimorpha promissa on Cotinus coggygria; 12, 13, Stigmella freyella on Convolvulus arvensis; 14, S. tiliae on Tilia cordata; 15, S. paliurella on Paliurus spina-christi.

FIGURES 62 – 65. Genitalia of the Nepticulidae occurring in the Crimea. 62, Simplimorpha promissa, male genitalia slide no. AN 511; 63, Stigmella irregularis, male genitalia slide no. AN 538; 64, S. freyella, female genitalia slide No. AN 529; 65, S. tiliae, male genitalia slide No. AN 493.