Ectoedemia contorta

Navickaitė, Asta, Diškus, Arūnas & Stonis, Jonas R., 2014, An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe, Zootaxa 3847 (2), pp. 151-202 : 167

52. Ectoedemia contorta van Nieukerken, 1985

( Figs 118, 119 )

Host-plants. Unknown in the Crimea; possibly Quercus spp, as in other regions.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Sub-Mediterranean; the species occurs from Spain and Italy to Slovakia, Greece and Crimea.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 31.v.1988, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AG 110♂.

Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and not abundant (no leaf-mines, collected at light only).

Figures

FIGURES 118 – 121. Genitalia of the Ectoedemia species occurring in the Crimea. 118, E. contorta, male genital capsule, genitalia slide no. AG 110; 119, same, phallus; 120, E. mahalebella, male genitalia slide no. AN 482; 121, same, female genitalia slide no. AN 537.