Simplimorpha promissa (Staudinger, 1870)

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

1. Simplimorpha promissa (Staudinger, 1870)

( Figs 11 , 62 )

Host-plants. Cotinus coggygria Scop. in the Crimea; in other regions also Pistacia spp. and Rhus coriaria L.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Sub-Mediterranean-Mediterranean; the species occurs from Spain and Austria to Greece and Georgia (Abkhazia).

Material examined. CRIMEA: 5♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 12–26.viii.2009, leg. A. Remeikis & J. R. Stonis; 1♂, the same locality, mining larva on Cotinus coggygria Scop. , fieldwork card no. 4966, 12 –26.viii.2009, leg. A. Remeikis & J. R. Stonis; 1♂, the same locality, mining larva on Cotinus coggygria Scop. , fieldwork card no. 5058, 01 –02.viii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & G. Varačinskas, genitalia slide no. AN 511♂; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, empty leaf-mines on Cotinus coggygria Scop. , fieldwork card no. 5058, 07.viii.2011., leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 12 N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines on Cotinus coggygria Scop. , fieldwork card no. 5058, 09.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

Remarks. The species is very common in the Crimea: very widespread and very abundant, particularly in the coastal zone.

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.

FIGURES 62 – 65. Genitalia of the Nepticulidae occurring in the Crimea. 62, Simplimorpha promissa, male genitalia slide no. AN 511; 63, Stigmella irregularis, male genitalia slide no. AN 538; 64, S. freyella, female genitalia slide No. AN 529; 65, S. tiliae, male genitalia slide No. AN 493.