Ectoedemia mahalebella ( Klimesch, 1936 )

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 : 94

Ectoedemia mahalebella ( Klimesch, 1936)

F: Stigmella mahalebella ; Lhomme 1945: 156— 46; Lhomme [1963]: 1195— 46

Ectoedemia mahalebella ; van Nieukerken 1985b: 77— 66, 73

Misidentification: Nepticula plagicolella ; Lhomme 1934: 129— 46

Material. 05: 2 adults, TM , Les Vigeaux , mines in ix­x, e.l. vi, RB (Buvat in litt.) ; 05: 3 VM, Les Vigeaux , 1.i.1979 – 31.xii.1979, RB ( RMNH) ; 2 adults, St. Maurice en Valgaudemar, e.l., RB ( RB) ; 07: VM, Thueyts, 400 m, 31.vii–1.viii.1985, EvN & SR; 11 : 9♂, 11♀, TM , Sigéan , 12.x.1998, e.l. iv.1998, AL & ZL ; 24: 1 TM, Le Change, 6 km SW Cubjac , 20.vii.1986, EvN & SR; 26 : 3♂, 3♀, TM , Les Prés , 2 km N Valdrôme, 800 m, 11– 21.viii.2002, e.l. 28.iv–9.v.2003, EvN; TM , 1.5 km SE Luc­en­Diois, Les Claps , 600 m, 21.viii.2002, EvN; 2 VM , Pont­de­Quart , 7 km SE Die: valley of Drôme, 460 m, 12.viii.2002, EvN; 55: VM , Dun­sur­Meuse, S., 180 m, 24.ix.2002, CvdB & EvN. All mines on Prunus mahaleb .

Remarks. Where Prunus mahaleb occurs, Ectoedemia mahalebella is not rare. We record here the most northern locality for this species in 55­Meuse, where we found the characteristic mines.