Ectoedemia haraldi ( Soffner, 1942 )

van Nieukerken, Erik J., Laštůvka, Aleš & Laštůvka, Zdenĕk, 2006, The Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of mainland France and Corsica: an annotated catalogue (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea), Zootaxa 1216 (1216), pp. 1-114 : 87

Ectoedemia haraldi ( Soffner, 1942)

F: Nepticula haraldi Soffner 1942: 56— 16 [types]; Le Marchand 1950: 140— 33

Stigmella haraldi ; Suire 1951: 88— 30; Lhomme [1963]: 1196 — 16, 33

Ectoedemia haraldi ; Klimesch 1975b: 864 — 06 [‘types’ Nepticula ilicella Constant ]; van Nieukerken 1985b: 47 — 06, 11, 13, 16, 33, 34, 84

Stigmella prinophyllella Le Marchand 1946b: 280 — 06, 33 [types]

Misidentifications (possibly): Nepticula suberis ; Brown & Gouin 1917: 407— 33; Lhomme [1963]: 1196— 46

Excluded record: Ectoedemia haraldi ; Rungs 1988: 11— 20

Material. 06: 6♂, 1♀, Domaine de Maure­Vieille , 22.v.­2.vi.2003, H. Hendriksen ( ZMUC); 13 : 2♂, 3♀, TM , 4 km N St. Martin­de­Crau, Bois de Santa Fé , 16.ii.1991, Quercus ilex , e.l. 4–14.iv.1991, EvN ; 1 adult, Allauch, RB ; 1 adult, Roquefort, RB ( RB) ; 34: 2♀, Forêt Domaniale des Avants­Monts , 5 km S St. Pons­de­Thomières, route forestière, 746 m, 26.vi.2005, blacklight, EvN ; 3♂, 3♀, TM , 4 km WSW St. Paul­et­Valmalle , D114, 17.ii.1991, Quercus ilex , 7–14.iv.1991, EvN ; 2♂, 3♀, St. Pons­de­Thomières , Artenac, 450 m, 24.vi.2005, blacklight, EvN ; 4♂, TM , 2 km NE St. Pons­de­Thomières , Fonclare, 20.ii.1991, Q. ilex , e.l. 7–9.iv.1991, EvN; 66 : 3♂, 3♀, Mt. Coronat near Belloc, 3.5 km N Villefranche­de­Conflent, 910 m, 22.vi.2005, blacklight, EvN; 83 : 2♀, TM , Massif de l'Estérel , 8 km NW Agay, MF du Malpey, 13.ii.1991, Q. suber , e.l. 11–19.iv.1991, EvN ; 1♀, St. Maximin­la­Ste Baume , 13.vi.1986, at light, K.N. Nieuwland ( RMNH); 84 : 2♂, 2♀, TM , 1.5 km E Grillon , 8.ii.1991, Q. ilex , e.l. 1–11.iv.1991, EvN ; 4♂, 4♀, TM , Viens, 4 km SE Gignac : Les Douces, 15.ii.1991, Q. ilex , 4–14.iv.1991, EvN ( RMNH, RJ) .

Remarks. Ectoedemia haraldi is the most common and widespread Ectoedemia feeding on evergreen Quercus , not only in France, but also throughout southern Europe where it occurs from Portugal to Turkey. In France it is the only species recorded outside the Mediterranean area, along the Atlantic coasts north to 16­Charente. Adults, especially females, are easily confused with the species of the albifasciella complex and E. andalusiae , but mines are inseparable from those of E. ilicis , E. heringella , and E. algeriensis . Before 1942, Ectoedemia haraldi frequently was misidentified as E. suberis , although adults are relatively easy to distinguish by the hairpencil in the male and hairy abdominal tip in the female of E. suberis . We have not been able to trace the record from Corsica, nor have we seen any specimen from there.