Stigmella ruficapitella (Haworth, 1828)

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 : 53-54

Stigmella ruficapitella (Haworth, 1828)

F: Stigmella ruficapitella ; Courtois 2000a: 8— 57; van Nieukerken & Johansson 2003: 342 —

‘France’; Courtois 2002: 52— 57; Leraut 2003: 19— 77 Excluded doubtful records [most refer to S. roborella ]: Nepticula ruficapitella ; Peyerimhoff 1872a: 137; Millière 1876a: 372; Peyerimhoff 1879: 561;

Sand 1879: 200; Jourdheuille 1883: 214; Paux 1901: 705; Joannis 1909: 819; Gélin & Lucas

1915: 134; Brown & Gouin 1917: 402; Maneval 1935: 255; Skala 1941b: 149 Stigmella ruficapitella ; Suire 1951: 96; Lhomme [1963]: 1167 CO: Nepticula ruficapitella ; Skala 1937b: 110; Buhr 1940: 209

Material. 91: 4♂, 2♀, Bois de Verrières , reared from Quercus, RB ( RB, RJ) ; 92: 3♀, Meudon , 3.iv., Quercus, Joannis ( MNHN) ; 1♂, Vaucresson , 22.iv.1945, Le Marchand [misid. as atricapitella ] ( MNHN) .

Remarks. Almost all previous records of adults under this name refer to S. roborella ; southern records refer to S. eberhardi , female S. suberivora , and possibly S. ilicifoliella . Records of mines may also refer to S. samiatella . True S. ruficapitella is known only from the northern parts of France (van Nieukerken & Johansson 2003).