Ectoedemia longicaudella Klimesch, 1953

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 : 165

45. Ectoedemia longicaudella Klimesch, 1953

( Fig. 110 )

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

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Spain to Finland, central European Russia, Greece, Turkey, and the Caucasus ( Georgia).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 14♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 02–16.vii.1987, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. AG095♂; 2♂, the same locality, at light, 26.vii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Var ači n sk as.

Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: widespread and abundant (no mines observed, collected at light only).

Figures

FIGURES 110 – 113. Genitalia of the Ectoedemia species occurring in the Crimea. 110, E. longicaudella, male genitalia slide no. AN 491; 111, E. similigena, holotype, male genitalia slide no. AN 216; 112, same, paratype, male genitalia slide no. EvN 3924; 113, same, paratype, female genitalia slide no. EvN 3925.