Stigmella desperatella (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 : 157

14. Stigmella desperatella (Frey, 1856) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 30 , 74 )

Host-plants. Malus domestica Borkh. in the Crimea; in other regions also Prunus spinosa L. and Pyrus communis L.

Distribution. Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Great Britain and Italy to northwestern and central European Russia and the western Caucasus.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 2♂, 2♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, larva on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5018, 13 –17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide nos AN 478♂, AN 479♂; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5018, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5018, 07.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5018, 09.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: widespread but not abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 24 – 31. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 24, 25, 27, S. torminalis on Sorbus torminalis; 26, S. hahniella on S. torminalis; 28, 29, S. crataegiella on Crataegus sp.; 30, S. desperatella on Malus domestica; 31, S. hybnerella on Crataegus sp.

FIGURES 74 – 77. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 74, S. desperatella, genitalia slide no. AN 478; 75, S. torminalis, genitalia slide no. AN 523; 76, same, capsule without phallus, genitalia slide no. AN 467; 77, same, phallus.