(Figs 32, 82)
Host-plants. Malus domestica Borkh. in the Crimea; in other regions also M. sylvestris Mill., occasionally Prunus spp.
Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Portugal and Ireland to Finland, the southern Ural, and Greece. Records from the Caucasus (Georgia) need to be viewed with caution (Puplesis & Diškus 2003).
Material examined. CRIMEA: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on Malus domestica Borkh., fieldwork card no. 5023, 14 – 17.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 526 ♂; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh., fieldwork card no. 5023, 17.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, empty leaf-mines on Malus domestica Borkh., fieldwork card no. 5023, 07.viii. 2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.
Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: widespread and abundant.