Stigmella hahniella (Wörz, 1937), Worz, 1937

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 : 157-158

17. Stigmella hahniella (Wörz, 1937) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 26 , 79 )

Host-plant. Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz. in the Crimea (as in other regions).

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Germany and Slovenia to Slovakia and Crimea.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 2♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz, fieldwork card no. 5037, 25.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus, genitalia slide nos AN 522♂, AN 523♂; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz, fieldwork card no. 5037, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė.

Remarks. The species is common in the Crimea: widespread and very abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 24 – 31. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 24, 25, 27, S. torminalis on Sorbus torminalis; 26, S. hahniella on S. torminalis; 28, 29, S. crataegiella on Crataegus sp.; 30, S. desperatella on Malus domestica; 31, S. hybnerella on Crataegus sp.

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.