Trifurcula (Glaucolepis) stoechadella (Klimesch, 1975)

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 : 60-62

Trifurcula (Glaucolepis) stoechadella (Klimesch, 1975) Fig. 21–22.

F: Trifurcula (Glaucolepis) stoechadella ; van Nieukerken 1996: 24—‘France’; Leraut 1997: 81 — ‘France’; Lašt û vka & Lašt û vka 1997: 129—‘Südfrankreich’

CO: Trifurcula (Glaucolepis) stoechadella ; van Nieukerken 1996: 24—‘Corsica’

Material. France: 06: 5♂, 2♀, Domaine de Maure­Vieille , 10–12.vi.2001 ; 16♂, 10♀,

Domaine de Maure­Vieille, 17.v.­5.vi.2003, H. Hendriksen ( ZMUC); 34: TM, 2.5 km E Laurens , D15E, 200 m, 19.ii.1991, EvN ; 1♂, St. Pons , 3.viii.1904, P. Chrétien ( MNHN) ; 2♂, TM , 1.8 km N St. Pons­de­Thomières , la Fourbedié Haute, 20.ii.1991, e.l. 26.v– 14.vi.1991, EvN; 66: 2 VM , 2 km SE Banyuls­sur­Mer , 140 m, 15.iv.1993, EvN & JCK; 83 : 2♂, 1♀, TM , Canadel­sur­Mer , road D27, 12.ii.1991, 19.v–6.vi.1991, EvN; 1 TM , Massif de l'Estérel , 2.5 km N Agay, Col de Belle Barbe, 50 m, 13.ii.1991, EvN ; 6♂, 13♀, TM , Massif de l'Estérel , 4 km N Agay, Col du Mistral, 13.ii.1991, 19.v–14.vi.1991, EvN ( RMNH, ZKVV); 84 : 1♂, Pertuis , 10.vii.1991, AL & ZL ; 1♂, Viens , 14.viii.1974, RB ( RB) .— Corsica: 2B: 1♂, Castirla , 12 km N Corte, 400 m, 20.vi.1994, B. Skule & P. Skou ( ZMUC). All mines on Lavandula stoechas .

Remarks. First detailed records. Common and often abundant in the ‘Midi’ on Lavandula stoechas . Not observed on true ‘lavande’ ( Lavandula angustufolia and L. latifolia ) upon which we found another unnamed species. Larvae and mines can be found in winter (see Fig. 21–22), the species is univoltine.