Trifurcula macedonica Z. Laštůvka & A. Laštůvka, 1998

Navickaitė, Asta, Diškus, Arūnas & Stonis, Jonas R., 2014, An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe, Zootaxa 3847 (2), pp. 151-202 : 169

59. Trifurcula macedonica Z. Laštůvka & A. Laštůvka, 1998 (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 130–133 )

Host-plant. Unknown.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Sub-Mediterranean; the species is known only from Macedonia and Crimea.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 2♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 08–19.viii.1987, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide nos AG098♂, AG099♂.

Remarks. The species is very rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and sporadic (no mines, collected only at light).

Figures

FIGURES 130 – 133. Male genitalia of Trifurcula macedonica occurring in the Crimea. 130, capsule, genitalia slide no. AG 098; 131, same, phallus; 132, capsule, genitalia slide no. AG 099; 133, same, phallus.