Stigmella plagicolella Stainton 1854

Abstract

<p>37. Stigmella plagicolella (Stainton, 1854) (new to the Crimea). (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.<p>