(Figs 56, 100)
Host-plants. Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. and P. spinosa L. in the Crimea; in other regions also other species of Prunus and Cerasus spp.
Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Mediteranean; the species occurs from Spain and Ireland to Finland, northwestern and central Russia, Greece, and the western Caucasus (Georgia: Abkhazia).
Material examined. CRIMEA: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larvae on Prunus cerasifera Ehrh., fieldwork card no. 5010, 14.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 492 ♂; the same locality, empty leaf-mines on Prunus spinosa L., fieldwork card no. 5010, 25.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; Simferopol, empty leaf-mines on Prunus cerasifera Ehrh., fieldwork card no. 5010, 12.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus; Feodosiya, empty leaf-mines on Prunus cerasifera Ehrh., fieldwork card no. 5010, 05.viii. 2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas; 49 km S Simferopol, Alushta, empty leaf-mines on Prunus spinosa L., fieldwork card no. 5010, 08.viii. 2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.
Remarks. The species is common in the Crimea: widespread and very abundant.