Bohemannia pulverosella (Stainton, 1849)

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 : 165

43. Bohemannia pulverosella (Stainton, 1849) (new to the Crimea)

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Host-plants. Malus domestica Borkh. in the Crimea; in other regions also M. sylvestris Mill.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Nemoral; the species occurs from France and Ireland to Finland, the Ural region, Ukraine, and Bulgaria.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5030, 14.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leafmines on Malus domestica Borkh. , fieldwork card no. 5030, 09.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varači nskas.

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

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.