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Phyllonorycter strigulatella De Prins & De Prins 2018

Description

Phyllonorycter strigulatella (Zeller, 1846)

(Fig. 13E)

Material examined. Russia: SO, Sakhalin Island, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Gagarin Park, 46.96N, 142.75E, 69 m alt., Alnus hirsuta, 11.VII.2017, 1 male (reared from leaf mine), NK- 75-17-2 / [19-male], deposited in SIF.

Leaf mine. The mine is a white oval blotch, with 2–3 folds on the epidermis surface, between the main vein and secondary veins, and may have a short preceding epidermal tunnel, on the lower side of the leaf (Fig. 13E). Pupation in the mine.

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Alnus: A. alnobetula, A. hirsuta, A. incana, A. minor, A. rugosa (Betulaceae) (De Prins & De Prins 2018). Records on A. glutinosa need confirmation.

Distribution. Russia: RFE—KK, PK, SO (Ermolaev 1977; Noreika 1997; Baryshnikova 2016), Siberia, European part (Baryshnikova 2008); Europe (De Prins & De Prins 2018), 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 pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475

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References

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  • De Prins, J. & De Prins W (2018) Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera). Available from: http: // www. gracillariidae. net / (accessed 2 August 2018)
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  • Noreika, R. (1997) Gracillariidae. In: Ler, P. A. (Ed.), Key to the insects of Russian Far East. Vol. 1. Trichoptera and Lepidoptera. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok, pp. 373 - 429. [in Russian]
  • Baryshnikova, S. V. (2008) Gracillariidae. In: Sinev, S. Yu. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Russia. KMK Scientific Press, St. - Petersburg & Moscow, pp. 38 - 45. [in Russian]
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