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Phyllonorycter orientalis

Description

Phyllonorycter orientalis (Kumata, 1963)

(Fig. 12G)

Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.15E, 224 m alt., Acer pictum, 22.VII.2016, 1 male (reared from leaf mine), NK536, MK 403726; same location, A. pictum, 23.VII.2016, 1 larva, NK535, MK 403729; same location, A. saccharum, 26.VII.2016, 1 larva, NK538, MK 403707, all deposited in INRA.

Leaf mine. The mine is an elongated contracted whitish blotch, without preceding epidermal tunnel, with one pronounced fold on the epidermis; situated on the lower side of the leaf nearby the leaf margin (Fig. 12G). Loose grains of frass are accumulated in the central part of the mine. From the upper side, the mine is white (Fig. 12G). Pupation in the mine.

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Acer: A. carpinifolium, A. palmatum, A. pictum, A. pseudosieboldianum (Sapindaceae) (De Prins & De Prins 2018), A. saccharum (new record).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—PK, SO (Kuril Islands) (Ermolaev 1977; Baryshnikova 2016), European part (Baryshnikova 2008); Japan, Taiwan (Kumata 1963), Korea (Park & Han 1986).

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 23-27, 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.
  • De Prins, J. & De Prins W (2018) Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera). Available from: http: // www. gracillariidae. net / (accessed 2 August 2018)
  • Ermolaev, V. P. (1977) A review of the fauna and ecology of miner-moths (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae) of the Primorye Territory. The Fauna of Insects of the Far East. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademija Nauk SSSR, 70, 98 - 116. [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]
  • Park, K. T. & Han, S. S. (1986) Seven species of Gracillariidae and Lyonetiidae (Lepidoptera) new to Korea and a list of the known host plants for the families. Korean Journal of Plant Protection, 25, 121 - 128.