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Stigmella minusculella Herrich-Schaffer 1855

Description

13. Stigmella minusculella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)

Host-plants. Unknown in the Crimea; possibly Pyrus spp. as in other regions.

Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Mediterranean; the species occurs from the Iberian Peninsula and Great Britain to Latvia, central and southern European Russia, and Greece.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 1♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 19.ix.1987, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AG 115♂; 1♂, the same locality, at light, 29.vi.1988, leg. R. Puplesis, genitalia slide no. RA 255♂.

Remarks. The species is rare in the Crimea: highly limited in distribution and not abundant (no leaf-mines known, collected at light only).

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 156, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/251666

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