Ectoedemia suberis ( Stainton, 1869 )

van Nieukerken, Erik J., Laštůvka, Aleš & Laštůvka, Zdenĕk, 2006, The Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of mainland France and Corsica: an annotated catalogue (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea), Zootaxa 1216 (1216), pp. 1-114 : 84

Ectoedemia suberis ( Stainton, 1869)

F: Nepticula suberis Stainton 1869: 229 — 06 [types]; Millière 1876a: 373 — 06; Nolcken 1882: 198 — 06; Walsingham 1891: 152 — 06, 83; Skala 1937a: 10 — 04

Stigmella suberis ; Suire 1951: 88— 30; Lhomme [1963]: 1196 — 06, 11, 34, 84

Ectoedemia suberis ; van Nieukerken 1985b: 41 — 06, 34, 83; Brusseaux 2004: 74— 84

CO: Nepticula suberis ; Skala 1938: 43— 2 A; Buhr 1940: 209— 2 A, 2B

Ectoedemia suberis ; van Nieukerken 1985b: 41— 2 A

Excluded records (probably E. haraldi ):

F: Nepticula suberis ; Brown & Gouin 1917: 407— 33; Lhomme [1963]: 1196— 46

Material. France: 13: Marseille Luminy , RB ( RB) ; Roquefort , RB ( RB) ; 6♂, 4♀, larvae, Rousset , 21.iii.2001, Quercus ilex , e.l. viii.2001, AL & ZL ; 83: 4♂, TM , Le Luc , 21.iii.2001, Q. ilex , e.l. viii.2001, AL & ZL ; TM, Massif de l'Estérel , 8 km NW Agay, MF du Malpey, 360 m, 13.ii.1991, Q. suber , EvN; 1♂, Régusse, 21.viii.1986, von Lettow (coll. von Lettow) .— Corsica: 2A: VM , 4 km E Porticcio , 9.v.1982, Quercus suber , EvN ( ZMAN) .

Remarks. Ectoedemia suberis is common in the Mediterranean departments and on Corsica. Before Le Marchand recognized the presence of two species ( Le Marchand 1946b), adults were often confused with Ectoedemia haraldi . Old records, therefore, are often misidentifications, as was the case in the Iberian Peninsula (van Nieukerken et al. 2004a). We therefore exclude all records from the western Part of France (33, 46), which we did not examine. Most likely they represent E. haraldi .