Trifurcula eurema (Tutt, 1899)

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

60. Trifurcula eurema (Tutt, 1899) (new to the Crimea)

( Figs 58 , 129 )

Host-plants. Lotus sp. in the Crimea; in other regions also Dorycnium spp. and Tetragonolobus maritimus (L.) Roth.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Mediterranean; the species occurs from Spain, Italy and Great Britain to Sweden, Slovakia, Ukraine, Greece, and the Asiatic part of Turkey.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 2♀, 10 km E Sudak, near Pereval Sinor, mining larvae on Lotus sp., fieldwork card no. 5035, 15.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; mining larvae and epmty leaf-mines on Lotus sp., fieldwork card no. 5035, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 528♂.

Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and not 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 126 – 129. Male genitalia of the Trifurcula species occurring in the Crimea. 126, T. subnitidella, genitalia slide no. AG 094; 127, T. silviae, capsule, genitalia slide no. AN 489; 128, same, phallus; 129, T. eurema, genitalia slide no. AN 528.