Stigmella salicis (Stainton, 1854)

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 : 39-40

Stigmella salicis (Stainton, 1854)

F: Nepticula salicis ; Peyerimhoff 1872a: 138 –[67+68]; Millière 1876a: 373 — 06; Sand 1879:

202— 36; Paux 1901: 708— 59; Joannis 1909: 826— 56; Gélin & Lucas 1915: 137— 33, 40, 56;

Brown & Gouin 1917: 407— 33; Chrétien 1924: 8— 92 Stigmella salicis ; Lhomme [1963]: 1195— 06, 14, 33, 36, 40, 56, 59, 68, 88, 91; Courtois 2002:

51— 57; Leraut 2003: 18— 77 CO: Nepticula sp. ; Skala 1938: 44— 2 A [Mines on Salix cinerea ] Nepticula salicis ; Kusdas 1974: 165— 2 B Excluded records: Nepticula salicis ; Skala 1938: 44—20 [Mines on Salix amygdalina and alba ]

Material. 12: VM, Arvieu , 6–15.ix.1979, Salix cinerea, R. Kloos ( RMNH); 14: 2♂, Bayeux, S. sp., e.l. 26.v–5.vi.1906, Le Marchand ( MNHN); 14: 1♂, Longues, S. sp., e.l. 3.vi.1906, Le Marchand ( MNHN); 24: Le Change, 6 km SW Cubjac, 20.vii.1986, S. cine­ rea, EvN & SR (observation); 54: 1 VM, Vathimenal , 2 km ESE St. ­ Clément, along Meurthe, 250 m, 26.x.2002, S. cinerea , EvN; 55: 1 VM, 2 km E Génicourt­sur­Meuse (4 km N Troyon ), 220 m, 24.ix.2002, S. caprea , CvdB & EvN; 56: 2♂, 1♀, Vannes, Joannis ( MNHN) [misidentified as Nepticula subbimaculella and mislabelled as from chêne(oak)]; 57: 1♀ , TM, 2.5 km N Donon: Col de l'Engin , 789 m, 16.x.1978, S. caprea , e.l. 17.v.1980, EvN ( ZMAN); 64: 1♀, Nay, 5.vii.1924, Chrétien ( MNHN); 66 : VM, Las Illas , 8 km SW Le Perthus, 650 m, 1.viii.1982, S. aurita , EvN; 67: 1♀ , TM, Col du Donon , 720 m, 16.x.1978, S. caprea , 10.vi.1980, EvN ( RMNH, ZMAN) .

Remarks. Stigmella salicis is the most common and widespread Salix feeding nepticulid, usually on hairy leaved Salix , but the species belongs to an incompletely understood complex together with the next species and probably some undescribed species. Some material from 33­Gironde (collected by Le Marchand) is excluded for the time being; it is probably an unnamed species.