Stigmella crataegella ( 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 : 32-33

Stigmella crataegella ( Klimesch, 1936)

F: Stigmella crataegella ; Leraut 1977a: 91 —‘region Parisienne’; Schoorl et al. 1985: 80— 12, 66, 73; Leraut 2003: 17— 77

Misidentifications (partim): Nepticula oxyacanthella ; Jourdheuille 1883: 214— 10 (Larvae in July); Lhomme 1934: 133— 46 (Larvae in July­August)

Material. 06: near Col de Fournès, 7 km N Utelle, 1370 m, 9.viii.1987, EvN; 1♂, La Turbie, 1500ft, e.l. 3.v.1911, Quercus ilex [obviously mistaken], Walsingham ( BMNH); 07: TM, 2 km E St. Agrève, Chomette, 1040 m, 23–24.viii.1905, EvN & SR; Thueyts, 400 m, 31.vii–1.viii.1985, EvN & SR; 26: 3 larvae, Les Prés, 2 km N Valdrôme, 800 m, 11– 18.viii.2002, EvN; 43: Le Monastier sur Gazeille, 820 m, 28.vii.1985, Crataegus laevigata , EvN & SR; 55: Dun­sur­Meuse, S., 180 m, 24.ix.2002, CvdB & EvN; 2 km E Génicourt­sur­Meuse (4 km N Troyon), 220 m, 24.ix.2002, C. laevigata , CvdB & EvN; 66: TM, VM, 1 larva, Mt Canigou, N slopes near Fillols, 1176 m, 23.vi.2005, EvN; 68: Bollenberg, ca. 4 km WSW Rouffach, 320 m, 25.ix.2002, CvdB & EvN; 4 km NW Fessenheim, Le Hardwald, 200 m, 26.ix.2002, CvdB & EvN; 69: St. Bonnet­des­Bruyères, 550– 600 m, 12.vii.1985, EvN & SR; 1 TM, many VM, Tarare, 400 m, 17.vii.1985, EvN & SR; 84: mines common, Viens, viii, RB (Buvat in litt.). All VM on Crataegus monogyna , except where indicated.

Remarks. Tenanted mines of S. crataegella are usually easy to identify by the green larva, the coiled frass and the occurrence in summer (June to August). In the south a possible second generation occurs as well. Before S. crataegella was described in 1936 (and partly thereafter as well), these mines were mistaken for S. oxyacanthella . We can assume that all records of larvae and mines of S. oxyacanthella from the summer (such as those cited above) refer to S. crataegella . Widespread and common in sunny places throughout France.