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Phyllonorycter ermani De Prins & De Prins 2018

Description

Phyllonorycter ermani (Kumata, 1963)

(Fig. 12B)

Material examined. Russia: SO, Sakhalin Island, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Gagarin Park, 46.96N, 142.75E, 69 m alt., Betula platyphylla, 11.VII.2017, 1 larva, NK623, MK 403679, deposited in INRA.

Leaf mine. The mine is similar to Ph. cavella but with hardly any folds visible. Up to three mines per leaf were recorded in RFE. At later stages, the leaf is significantly deformed (Fig. 12B). Pupation in the mine.

Trophic specialization. Oligophagous on Betulaceae: Alnus maximowiczii, Betula ermanii (Kumata 1963; Ermolaev 1987), Betula platyphylla (new record).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—SO (Kuril Islands) (Baryshnikova 2016), Sakhalin Island (new record); Japan (Kumata 1963).

Notes

Published as part of Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 4652 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475

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References

  • Kumata, T. (1963) Taxonomic studies on the Lithocolletinae of Japan (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) Part I. Insecta Matsumurana, 25, 53 - 90.
  • Ermolaev, V. P. (1987) Material on the fauna of Gracillariidae from Sakhalin and the southern Kuril Islands. In: Ler, P. A., Kirpichnikova, V. A. & Kononenko, V. S. (Eds.), Lepidoptera of the Soviet Far East. Far East Scientific Center, Vladivostok, pp. 25 - 36. [in Russian]