Pseudoswammerdamia combinella (Hubner, 1786)

Marabuto, Eduardo, 2022, Spialia rosae Hernández-Roldán, DApporto, Dincă, Vicente & VilA, 2016, and 17 moth species new for the fauna of Portugal (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25, pp. 305-322 : 306-307

2. Pseudoswammerdamia combinella (H̡bner, 1786)

— ProenÇa a Velha, Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco. 340 m a.s.l. MGRS: 29TPE5133. 27.V.2013. Eduardo Marabuto leg. Daytime spotting .

— Vale da Torre, Castelo Branco. 350 m a.s.l. MGRS: 29TPE3529. 4.IV.2020. Tita Frazão Lopes obs. Eduardo Marabuto det. Daytime spotting. ( Fig. 1c ) .

A widespread euriecious species in Europe but with few records in the Iberian Peninsula. Its limiting factor is mostly the presence of suitable hostplants. Larvae are leaf-miners at first and then live on a silken web under leaves of Prunus spinosa ( Agassiz, 1987) , but also the closely related P. domestica (Sch̡tze, 1931), probably sharing distribution with Thecla betulae (Linnaeus, 1758) in Portugal ( Marabuto et al., 2022).

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Fig. 1.- Habitus of new Portuguese species. a.- Ptilocephala moncaunella. b.- Ptilocephala monteiroi. c.- Pseudoswammerdamia combinella. d.- Digitivalva occidentella. e.- Prays peregrina, adult. f.- Prays peregrina on host-plant. g.- Prays peregrina, pupae. h.- Epicallima mikkolai. i.- Eretmocera medinella. Photos: Eduardo Marabuto (a, b, d & h); Tita Frazão Lopes (c); Ernesto GonÇalves (e, f & g); Pedro Henriques (i).