Trifurcula (Glaucolepis) headleyella (Stainton, 1854)

van Nieukerken, Erik J., Laštůvka, Aleš & Laštůvka, Zdenĕk, 2006, The Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of mainland France and Corsica: an annotated catalogue (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea), Zootaxa 1216 (1216), pp. 1-114 : 58

Trifurcula (Glaucolepis) headleyella (Stainton, 1854)

F: Trifurcula (Glaucolepis) headleyella ; van Nieukerken & Johansson 1990: 262 —‘France’; van Nieukerken 1996: 24—‘France’; Leraut 1997: 81 —‘France’; Courtois 2000b: 9— 54, 55, 57; Courtois 2001b: 14— 57; Courtois 2002: 52— 57

Misidentifications: Stigmella agrimoniae ; Lhomme [1963]: 1192— 77

Trifurcula agrimoniae ; Gibeaux 1999: 20— 77

Material. 38: 1♂, 11 km S Vif , 11.vi.1989, BÅB ( BÅB) ; 55: 1♂, 1♀, TM , Dun­sur­Meuse , S., 180 m, 23–24.ix.2002, Prunella grandiflora , 29.iv–8.v.2003,CvdB & EvN ; 5♂, 5♀, TM , 2 km E Génicourt­sur­Meuse (4 km N Troyon ), 220 m, 24.ix.2002, Prunella grandiflora , 28.iv–8.v.2003, CvdB & EvN; 73: 3 TM , 1 larva on slide (EvN581), Modane , southern slopes, 1100–1200 m, 24.viii.1979, Prunella vulgaris , EvN; 77 : 1♂, Fontainebleau , 16.vi.1945, H. Legrand [misidentified as Ectoedemia agrimoniae ] ( MNHN) .

Remarks. First recorded in detail by Courtois (2000b) from the limestone grasslands in northeastern France, where we also collected tenanted mines. Records from the Paris region (misidentified as Ectoedemia agrimoniae ) and the Alps suggest a wide distribution in France.