56. Trifurcula subnitidella (Duponchel, 1843)

(Fig. 126)

Host-plants. Unknown in the Crimea; probably Lotus spp. as in other regions.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Mediterranean; the species occurs from North Africa (Tunisia), Spain and Ireland to Finland, the Ural (Cheliabinsk), Crimea, and Greece.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 11.vi.1987, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AG094♂.

Remarks. The species is very rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and sporadic (no mines, collected only at light).