Ectoedemia (Ectoedemia) spinosella
Creators: name: van Nieukerken, Erik
name: Laštůvka, Aleš
name: Laštůvka, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nepticulidae
Ectoedemia
Ectoedemia spinosella

description: <i>Ectoedemia (Ectoedemia) spinosella</i> (Joannis) Figs 109, 110 <i>Ectoedemia (Ectoedemia) albiformae</i> Puplesis &amp; Diškus, 2003: 186. <b>Holotype</b> ♁ Turkmenistan: 40 km E Kara Kala, western part of Kopet dag ridge, 800 m, 30.V–27. VI.1993, Puplesis &amp; Diškus (VPU) [paratype examined]. <b>New synonymy</b> <b>Biology.</b> Hostplants: <i>Prunus</i> spp., <i>P. spinosa</i> L., <i>P. domestica</i> L., <i>P. cerasifera</i> Ehrh., <i>P. fruticosa</i> Pallas, <i>P. dulcis</i> (Miller), <i>P. webbii</i> (Spach) Fritsch. (new record). In most of Europe <i>P. spinosa</i> is the main host, in Greece the almonds <i>P. dulcis</i> and <i>P. webbii</i>. On most other hosts confusion with mines of <i>E. mahalebella</i> is possible. Univoltine in much of its area, in Greece bivoltine. Larvae in June (Greece) and again July to November, depending on latitude and season. Adults fly in May-July. <b>Distribution.</b> Russia: Van Nieukerken et al. 2004b; Belgium: Van Nieukerken 2006; Switzerland: Sauter 1983. Also recorded from Turkmenistan: Kopet Dag (Puplesis et al. 1996). A former record from Lithuania (dot on map, Van Nieukerken 1985) was a mistake. Th e record from France (26): Les Prés (Van Nieukerken et al. 2006) wa misidentification for <i>Ectoedemia mahalebella.</i> <b>Remarks:</b> <i>E. albiformae</i> was described from Turkmenistan, Western Kopet Dag. The authors compared it with <i>E. petrosa</i> Pupesis, 1988, but (after studying a male paratype, see Figs 109, 110) we cannot separate it from <i>E. spinosella</i> in any detail, apart from the white colour of the androconial scales that surround the brown hairpencil, which are brown in normal <i>spinosella</i>. We also once found this form in Greece, and since <i>E. spinosella</i> also occurs in the western Kopet Dag (Puplesis et al. 1996), we assume <i>albiformae</i> is most likely a colour aberration of <i>spinosella</i>, and hence synonymise it here. A female paratype of <i>albiformae</i> turned out to be an unknown <i>Stigmella</i> species. <b>Material.</b> <b>Greece:</b> vacated mines, dead larvae, Argolis, Ligourio, Epidauros theater archeological site, 360, 8.XI.2008, <i>Prunus webbii</i>, E.J. van Nieukerken (RMNH); lar- vae and vacated mines, Fokis, Dhelfoi, archeological site, 600–640 m, 6.XI.2008, E.J. van Nieukerken (RMNH); 3♁, 2&amp;female;, Fokis, Itea, 12. VI.1998, A. &amp; Z. Lašt&amp;uring;vka (AL); 1♁ [“ <i>albiformae</i> ”], 2&amp;female;, Messinia, Pírgos, 18. VI.1998, A. &amp; Z. Lašt&amp;uring;vka (AL); 2♁, Préveza, Thesprotiko, 11. VI.1998, e.l. VII.1998, A. &amp; Z. Lašt&amp;uring;vka (AL). <b>Italy:</b> 1♁, 1&amp;female;, Cuneo, Valdieri, Ris. Naturale Speciale Juniperus phoenicea, 860–950 m, 14–16. VIII.2007, e.l. 7. V.2008, E.J. van Nieukerken (RMNH). <b>Turkmenistan:</b> 1♁, 40 km E Kara Kala, western part of Kopet dag ridge, 800 m, 14. VI.1993, Puplesis &amp; Diškus (VPU) (paratype <i>albiformae</i>).
description: Published as part of <i>van Nieukerken, Erik, Laštůvka, Aleš &amp; Laštůvka, Zdeněk, 2010, Western Palaearctic Ectoedemia (Zimmermannia) Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): five new species and new data on distribution, hostplants and recognition, pp. 1-82 in ZooKeys 32 (32)</i> on page 70, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.32.282, http://zenodo.org/record/576594
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