Stephensia brunnichella (Linnaeus, 1767)

Phalaena (Tinea) brunnichella Linnaeus, 1767: 898 . Type locality: Portugal. Lectotype ♀ designated by Traugott- Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 45), LSUK.

Stephensia brunnichella: Stainton (1857b: 269) .

Elachista brunnichella: Stainton (1854: 250) .

‡ Microsetia stephensella Douglas, 1848: 5, xli. Unavailable; not accompanied by a description or definition (Nielsen & Traugott-Olsen 1978b: 198).

‡ Stephensia brunnichiella; misspelling (Wocke 1871: 325).

Distribution: Palearctic. Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. (England, Wales), Ukraine.

Larval host plant(s): Clinopodium vulgare L., Calamintha sp., Nepeta sp. ( Lamiaceae) (Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen 1977; Budashkin & Sinev 1991; Beiger 1979).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996), Traugott-Olsen (1996), Sruoga & Diškus (2001), Baran (2010a), Parenti & Pizzolato (2014).