Stigmella thuringiaca (Petry, 1904)

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 : 160

25. Stigmella thuringiaca (Petry, 1904)

( Figs 88–90 )

Host-plants. Unknown in the Crimea; in other regions Agrimonia , Filipendula , Fragaria , Potentilla , and Sanguisorba .

Type of distribution (chorological group). The species occurs in Europe (except northern regions); it was treated as belonging to the Euro-Submediterranean species group, but recently it has been discovered in East Asia too (Stonis & Rocienė, in prep.).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 2♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 21.vii–30.viii.1987, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide nos AG 107♂, RA 253♂; 1♂, the same locality, at light, 11.vii.1987, leg. S. Yu. Sinev, genitalia slide no. AN 208♂; 3♂, the same locality, at light, 01–19.vii.1987, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide nos EvN 2776♂, AN 207♂; 1♂, the same locality, at light, 29.vii.1988, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. RA254; 13♂, the same locality, at light, 23–30.vii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide nos AN 488♂, AN 490♂.

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

26. Stigmella rolandi van Nieukerken, 1990 ( Figs 38, 39 , 91–93 )

Host-plants. Rosa canina L. in the Crimea; in other regions also R. pimpinellifolia L. and Sanguisorba minor Scop.

Type of distribution (chorological group). West-Palaearctic; the species occurs from Spain, Italy and Germany to Greece and Central Asia ( Kazakhstan: Tyan Shan’ Mts).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, paratype, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 14.vii.1977, leg. S. Ja. Reznik; 3♂, paratypes, the same locality, at light, 05–22.vii.1987, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide nos EvN2772♂, EvN2773♂, EvN2774♂; 1♂, the same locality, at light, 23.vii.1987, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AG 118♂; 73♂, the same locality, 02–22.vii.1987, leg. leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. AN 205♂; 10♂, the same locality, at light, 28.vi–19.vii.1988, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. RA 262♂; 18♂, the same locality, at light, 12–26.viii.2009, leg. R. Remeikis & J. R. Stonis, genitalia slide nos RA 245♂, RA 246♂, RA 247♂; 200♂, the same locality, at light, 23.vii–02.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 10♂, the same locality, at light, 23.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis & S. Hill; 14♂, the same locality, at light, 24.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis & S. Hill; the same locality, empty leaf-mines on Rosa canina L., fieldwork card no. 5014, 12 –14.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Rosa canina L., fieldwork card no. 5014, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 8 km S Sudak, Novyi Svit, empty leaf-mines on Rosa canina L., fieldwork card no. 5014, 16.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 5♂, the same locality, mining larvae on Rosa canina L., fieldwork card no. 5054, 25.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 9♂, 23 km S Simferopol, Pereval'ne, empty leaf-mines on Rosa canina L., fieldwork card no. 5014, 21.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; Feodosiya, empty leaf-mines on Rosa canina L., fieldwork card no. 5014, 05.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, larva on Rosa canina L., fieldwork card no. 5014, 07.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide nos AN 512♂, AN 513♂; 49 km S Simferopol, Alushta, empty leaf-mines, fieldwork card no. 5014, 08.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines, fieldwork card no. 5014, 09.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide nos AN 502♂, AN 503♂, AN 510♂.

Remarks. The species is very common in the Crimea: very widespread and very abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 86 – 89. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 86, S. ulmivora, genitalia slide no. AN 505; 87, S. ulmiphaga, genitalia slide no. AN 506; 88, S. thuringiaca, capsule, genitalia slide no. AN 490; 89, same, phallus.

FIGURES 90 – 93. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 90, S. thuringiaca, genitalia slide no. AN 488; 91, S. rolandi, genitalia slide no. AN 502; 92, same, capsule, genitalia slide no. AN 512; 93, same, phallus.

FIGURES 32 – 39. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 32, S. malella on Malus domestica; 33, S. rhamnella on Rhamnus cathartica; 34, 35, S. viscerella on Ulmus sp.; 36, S. ulmivora on Ulmus sp.; 37, S. ulmiphaga on Ulmus sp.; 38, 39, S. rolandi on Rosa canina.