Parafomoria cistivora ( Peyerimhoff, 1871 )

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 : 72-73

Parafomoria cistivora ( Peyerimhoff, 1871)

F: Nepticula sp. ; Stainton 1869: 230 — 06

Nepticula cistivora Peyerimhoff 1871: 414 — 06 [types]; Millière 1872: 233­235 — 06, 83; Millière 1876a: 373 — 06; Walsingham 1891: 152 — 06; Goury & Guignon 1909: 138 —‘ France centrale et meridionale’.

Stigmella cistivora ; Suire 1951: 71— 30; Lhomme [1963]: 1208 — 06

Parafomoria cistivora ; van Nieukerken 1983: 460 — 06; van Nieukerken 1985b: 27— 13; Nel 2002: 275— 83; Lašt û vka & Lašt û vka 2005b: 17— 83

Excluded records (all pseudocistivora ): Nepticula cistivora ; Peyerimhoff 1871: 414 — 06 [types, partim]; Walsingham 1891: 152 — 06 [partim]; Gélin & Lucas 1915: 137— 33; Brown & Gouin 1917: 408— 33

Stigmella cistivora ; Lhomme [1963]: 1208 — 33

CO: Nepticula cistivora ; Skala 1937b: 111— 2 A

Material. France: 34: TM, 6 km NE Roujan, D 15, 250 m, 19.ii.1991, Cistus monspeliensis , EvN; 34: 1♀, TM, Le Mas Roujou, 3 km SW Clermont­l’Hérault, 19.ii.1991, C. monspeliensis , 22.ix.1991, EvN; TM, Montagne de la Gardiole, 5.5 km E Gigean, 40 m, 17.ii.1991, C. monspeliensis , EvN; 83: 2♂, 1♀, TM, La Bouverie, 5 km N Roquebrunesur­Argens, 30 m, 14.ii.1991, C. ladanifer and C. monspeliensis , e.l. 25.ix–2.x.1991, EvN; 1♂, TM, Massif de l'Estérel, 2.5 km N Agay, Col de Belle Barbe, 50 m, 13.ii.1991, C. monspeliensis , e.l. 2.x.1991, EvN; 1 TM, Massif de l'Estérel, 4.5 km N Agay, MF de Roussivau, 90 m, 13.ii.1991, C. monspeliensis , EvN; TM, Massif de l'Estérel, 8 km NW Agay, MF du Malpey, 360 m, 13.ii.1991, C. monspeliensis , EvN; 1♀, TM, Presqu'île de Giens, 2.5 km W Giens, 30 m, 12.ii.1991, C. monspeliensis , 13.x.1991, EvN.— Corsica: 2A: VM, 4 km E Porticcio, 11.v.1982, C. monspeliensis , EvN ( ZMAN).

Remarks. Parafomoria cistivora is an abundant species of the Cistus scrub on siliceous soils in the Provence and Languedoc; it feeds on species with glabrous leaves, including Cistus monspeliensis and C. ladanifer . In France it has not yet been found, but it is expected on C. laurifolius , another host. It is univoltine with larvae only in winter (December to March, or later in mountains). The larvae aestivate in the cocoon, with adults flying from August to October. As in most Parafomoria species , adults come to light rarely. Many old records refer to the following species.