Stigmella centifoliella (Zeller, 1848)

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 : 28

Stigmella centifoliella (Zeller, 1848)

F: Nepticula centifoliella ; Peyerimhoff 1872a: 137 —[67+68]; Peyerimhoff 1879: 563 — 03; Sand 1879: 201— 36; Jourdheuille 1883: 215— 10; Paux 1901: 707— 59; Gélin & Lucas 1915: 136— 33; Brown & Gouin 1917: 405— 33; Lhomme 1934: 166— 46; Maneval 1935: 256— 43; Skala 1941b: 149— 76

Stigmella centifoliella ; Lhomme [1963]: 1184 — 03, 33, 36, 43, 46, 59, 76, 79, 89, 91, 92; Courtois 2002: 50— 57; Leraut 2003: 17— 77

Misidentifications (possibly): Courtois 1999b: 1— 57; Courtois 2001b: 14— 57; Courtois 2002: 51— 57

Material. 05: 1♂, 1♀, La Grave , ix.1899, Alchemilla , e.l. 12.iv.1900, P. Chrétien ( MNHN); 46 : 1♂, Hopital­St. Jean , 8.vii.1995, KJH ( KJH) ; 66: 1♂, Jujols , 2 km NE Olette, 850 m, 11.viii.1982, Rosa spec. , 27.viii.1982, EvN ( ZMAN) .

Remarks. See remarks under S. anomalella . In the collection of Chrétien we found a pair of specimens labelled ‘Alchém.’, which we presume he reared from Alchemilla sp. This is the only record we know of this hostplant, and we never have seen nepticulid mines on it. There is a slight possibility of confusion with some Potentilla species , of which the leaves resemble those of Alchemilla alpina . Stigmella centifoliella feeds also on Sanguisorba , as does S. anomalella , and we frequently have seen mines which may be attributable to either of these two species. Such mines often are mistaken for those of S. poterii (see excluded species). The records by Courtois (1999b, 2001b, 2002) most likely belong to this species, since he recorded a fasciate species making cocoons on the leaf. The occurrence of this species on Corsica has not yet been confirmed, but is likely.