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Trifurcula eurema Tutt 1899

Description

60. Trifurcula eurema (Tutt, 1899) (new to the Crimea)

(Figs 58, 129)

Host-plants. Lotus sp. in the Crimea; in other regions also Dorycnium spp. and Tetragonolobus maritimus (L.) Roth.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Mediterranean; the species occurs from Spain, Italy and Great Britain to Sweden, Slovakia, Ukraine, Greece, and the Asiatic part of Turkey.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 2♀, 10 km E Sudak, near Pereval Sinor, mining larvae on Lotus sp., fieldwork card no. 5035, 15.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus; mining larvae and epmty leaf-mines on Lotus sp., fieldwork card no. 5035, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 528♂.

Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and not abundant.

Notes

Published as part of Navickaitė, Asta, Diškus, Arūnas & Stonis, Jonas R., 2014, An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe, pp. 151-202 in Zootaxa 3847 (2) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/251666

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nepticulidae
Genus
Trifurcula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Tutt
Species
eurema
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Trifurcula eurema Tutt, 1899 sec. Navickaitė, Diškus & Stonis, 2014