Trifurcula (Trifurcula) squamatella Stainton, 1849

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 : 72

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scientific name	Trifurcula (Trifurcula) squamatella Stainton, 1849
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Trifurcula (Trifurcula) squamatella Stainton, 1849 View in CoL

F: Trifurcula squamatella ; van Nieukerken 1987: 186— 40, 50, 67

Misidentifications: Trifurcula immundella ; Lhomme [1963]: 1209— 40, 50

Material. 17: 1♀, RoncelesBains, 8.ix.1921, Lhomme [as Nepticula cryptella ]; 46 : 1♂, La Bastide Murat, Lhomme ( MNHN); 63 : 1♀, Besse: route de Champeix [BesseenChandesse], 17.viii.1945, RB ; 1♂, Montcineyre, 11.viii.1945, RB ( RB) .

Remarks. Trifurcula squamatella is a local species, associated with common broom, Cytisus scoparius . Its feeding habit is unknown, but it possibly feeds inside the stems in a fashion similar to the recently described and related T. trasaghica A. & Z. Laštůvka, 2005 from Italy (Laštůvka & Laštůvka 2005a).