Stigmella paradoxa (Frey, 1858)

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 : 156

12. Stigmella paradoxa (Frey, 1858)

( Figs 23 , 70–73 )

Stigmella juryi Puplesis, 1991: 125 , 126.

Host-plants. Crataegus monogyna Jacq. in the Crimea; in other regions also other species of Crataegus .

Type of distribution (chorological group). West-Palaearctic; the species occurs from Portugal, Spain and Ireland to Sweden, central European Russia, Greece, Turkmenistan (Kopet Dag), and Iran.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂ [holotype of S. juryi ], 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 05.vii.1987, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. AN 209♂; 9♂, paratypes, the same locality, at light, 05–22.vii.1987, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. AN 203♂; 7♂, the same locality, at light, 15–21.vii.1987, leg. Yu. Budashkin; 1♂, the same locality, at light, 25.vii.1987, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AG 109♂; 4♂, the same locality, mining larvae on Crataegus monogyna Jacq. , fieldwork card no. 5051, 23.vii.2011, leg. A.Diškus & A.Navickaitė; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines on Crataegus monogyna Jacq. , fieldwork card no. 5051, 09.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide nos AN 495♂, AN 496♂, AN 497♂.

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

Figures

FIGURES 16 – 23. Leaf-mines of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 16, S. microtheriella on Carpinus orientalis; 17, S. glutinosae on Alnus glutinosa; 18, 19, S. alnetella on Alnus glutinosa; 20, 21, S. prunetorum on Prunus cerasifera (20) and P. spinosa (21); 22, S. aceris on Acer campestre; 23, S. paradoxa on Crataegus monogyna.

FIGURES 70 – 73. Male genitalia of the Stigmella paradoxa occurring in the Crimea. 70, capsule without phallus, genitalia slide No. AN 209 (holotype of S. juryi); 71 – same, phallus; 72, genitalia with phallus inside, genitalia slide No. AN 495; 73, same, genitalia slide No. AN 497.