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Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella

Description

Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella (Hübner, [1817])

(Figs 4M, 8D)

Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, MTS, 43.69N, 132.15E, 152 m alt., 22.VII.2016, 1 male (collected by sweep netting from Aesculus hippocastanum), 37.1 / [15Pu-2016-male] (Figs 4M, 8D); SO, Sakhalin Island, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Gagarin Park, 46.96N, 142.75E, 69 m alt., Betula platyphylla, 11.VII.2017, 1 female (reared from leaf mine), NK- 66-17-1 / [17-female], deposited in SIF.

Leaf mine. The mine is indistinguishable from the one of Ph. ermani on Betula platyphylla (Fig. 12B). Pupation in the mine.

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Betula: B. nigra, B. papyrifera, B. pendula, B. platyphylla, B. pubescens (Betulaceae) (De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—AO, KK, PK, SO (Kuril Islands) (Baryshnikova & Dubatolov, 2007; Baryshnikova 2016), SO (Sakhalin Island) (new record), Siberia, European part (Baryshnikova 2008; Kirichenko et al. 2017a); Japan (Kumata 1963), Kazakhstan (Kuznetsov & Baryshnikova 1998), Europe (De Prins & De Prins 2018).

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 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475

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References

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