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Phyllonorycter nipponicella

Description

Phyllonorycter nipponicella (Issiki, 1930)

(Fig. 5B)

Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, MTS, 43.69N, 132.15E, 152 m alt., Quercus mongolica, 23.VII.2016, 1 female (reared from leaf mine), 58.1 / [8-2016-female] (Fig. 5B), deposited in SIF.

Leaf mine. The mine is similar to Ph. nigristella.

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Quercus: Q. acutissima, Q. variabilis (Fagaceae) (Kumata 1963; Kumata et al. 1983; Fujihara et al. 2000); Q. mongolica (new record).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—KK, PK, SO (Kuril Islands) (Baryshnikova 2016); Japan (Kumata 1963), Korea (Kumata et al. 1983).

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

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References

  • Issiki, S. T. (1930) New Japanese and Formosan Microlepidoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10, 6 (34), 10, 422 - 431. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933008673235
  • Kumata, T. (1963) Taxonomic studies on the Lithocolletinae of Japan (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) Part I. Insecta Matsumurana, 25, 53 - 90.
  • Kumata, T., Kuroko, H. & Park, K. T. (1983) Some Korean species of the subfamily Lithocolletinae (Gracillariidae, Lepidoptera). Korean Journal of Plant Protection, 22, 213 - 227.
  • Fujihara, J., Sato, H. & Kumata, T. (2000) The pupal cremaster as a diagnostic character for species of Phyllonorycter (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with description of a new species of nipponicella complex from Japan. Insect Systematics and Evolution, 31, 387 - 400. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631200 X 00435