Ectodemia rufifrontella (Caradja 1920)

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 : 166

50. Ectodemia rufifrontella (Caradja 1920)

( Figs 114–117 )

Host-plants. Possibly Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. and Q. pubescens Willd. in the Crimea, as in other regions.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from France and Italy to Slovakia, Greece, and Crimea.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 2♂, 1♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 26.v–07.vi.1988, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide nos AN 201♂, AN 215♂, AN218♀.

Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: limited in distribution and not abundant (no leaf-mines were collected, at light only).

Figures

FIGURES 114 – 117. Genitalia of Ectoedemia rufifrontella occurring in the Crimea. 114, male genital capsule, genitalia slide no. AN 201; 115, same, phallus; female genitalia, 116, genitalia slide no. AN 218; 117, same, ductus spermathaecae.