Stigmella plagicolella (Stainton, 1854)

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 : 163

37. Stigmella plagicolella (Stainton, 1854) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 56 , 100 )

Host-plants. Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. and P. spinosa L. in the Crimea; in other regions also other species of Prunus and Cerasus spp.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Mediteranean; the species occurs from Spain and Ireland to Finland, northwestern and central Russia, Greece, and the western Caucasus ( Georgia: Abkhazia).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 1♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. , fieldwork card no. 5010, 14.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 492♂; the same locality, empty leaf-mines on Prunus spinosa L., fieldwork card no. 5010, 25.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; Simferopol, empty leaf-mines on Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. , fieldwork card no. 5010, 12.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; Feodosiya, empty leaf-mines on Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. , fieldwork card no. 5010, 05.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 49 km S Simferopol, Alushta, empty leaf-mines on Prunus spinosa L., fieldwork card no. 5010, 08.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

Remarks. The species is common in the Crimea: widespread and very abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 56 – 61 Leaf-mines and fruit-mines of the Nepticulidae species occurring in the Crimea. 56, Stigmella plagicolella on Prunus spinosa; 57, Ectoedemia mahalebella on Prunus spinosa; 58, Trifurcula eurema on Lotus sp.; 59, Bohemannia pulverosella on Malus domestica; 60, Etainia sericopeza on Acer platanoides; 61, E. louisella on Acer campestre.

FIGURES 98 – 101. Male genitalia of the Stigmella species occurring in the Crimea. 98, S. perpygmaeella, genitalia slide no. AN 498; 99, S. splendidissimella, genitalia slide no. AN 533; 100, S. plagicolella, genitalia slide no. AN 492; 101, S. basiguttella, genitalia slide no. AN 518.