Stigmella catharticella (Stainton, 1853)

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 : 158

19. Stigmella catharticella (Stainton, 1853) (new to the Crimea)

( Fig. 81 )

Host-plant. Rhamnus cathartica L. in the Crimea (as in other regions).

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Ireland and Italy to Finland, central European Russia, the southern Ural, and Bulgaria.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 2♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on Rhamnus cathartica L., fieldwork card no. 5025, 14.vii–06.viii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 480♂; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, empty leaf-mines on Rhamnus cathartica L., fieldwork card no. 5025, 15.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines on Rhamnus cathartica L., fieldwork card no. 5025, 09.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: widespread but not abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 78 – 81. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 78, S. crataegella, genitalia slide no. AN 476; 79, S. hahniella, genitalia slide no. AN 523; 80, S. hybnerella, genitalia slide no. AN 481; 81, S. catharticella, genitalia slide no. AN 480.