Blaste conspurcata

Blaste conspurcata (Rambur, 1842) Vishnyakova, 1964 (Euclismia conspurcata Ramb.); Danka, 1968; Ostrovsky, 2019. MATERIAL EXAMINED. Bragin district, E of Gden’ village, 51°20′08″N, 30°28′37″E, 115 m a.s.l., pine forest, from dry oak and pine trees brunches overgrown by lichens, 26.07.2020, 1♀, 1 nymph, collected by beating the vegetation; Khoyniki district, Khoyniki city, Kalinina str., 51°53′20″N, 29°57′37″E, 128 m a.s.l., in the crown of a deciduous tree, 12.09.2021, 1♀, collected by hand. DISTRIBUTION. Palaearctic species. Known from Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and all over European Russia (incl. North Caucasus) [Vishnyakova, 1959, 1964; Martini, 1975; Golub, 2005, 2016]. NOTES. A medium sized (c. 3.5– 4 mm) barkfly that is found on the bark of various coniferous and deciduous trees.