Stigmella confusella (Wood & Walsingham, 1894)

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 : 153

2. Stigmella confusella (Wood & Walsingham, 1894) (new to the Crimea)

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Host-plants. Betula pendula Roth in the Crimea; in other regions also other species of Betula .

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Nemoral; the species occurs from Ireland and Karelia (NW Russia) to Bulgaria and Ukraine (Crimea).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 49 km S Simferopol, Alushta, empty leaf-mines on Betula pendula Roth , fieldwork card no. 5064, 08.viii.2011, leg. A. Navickaitė.

Remarks. The species is very rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and sporadic.

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 15. Leaf-mines of the Nepticulidae species occurring in the Crimea. 8, Stigmella confusella on Betula pendula; 9 – 10, S. irregularis on Pyrus elaeagnifolia; 11, Simplimorpha promissa on Cotinus coggygria; 12, 13, Stigmella freyella on Convolvulus arvensis; 14, S. tiliae on Tilia cordata; 15, S. paliurella on Paliurus spina-christi.