Argyrestia communana Moriuti 1969
Creators
- 1. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine
Description
Argyrestia communana Moriuti, 1969 (fig. 2)
M a t e r i a l. Russia: District Sakhalin, Aniva; 46̊01' N 142̊52' E, 16.07.1973, 1 ǫ (Ermolenko).
D i s t r i b u t i o n. Russia (district Sakhalin, Aniva); Japan (Honshu, Kyushu) (Moriuti, 1969).
D i a g n o s i s. Wingspan 10–11 mm. Head and thorax white, dusted with pale greyochreous coloration. Labial palpi pale ochreous. Forewings grey, suffused with dark fuscous dots: a whitish costal spot before apex, and a whitish dorsal streak are diagnostic characters (fig. 2, 1). Cilia grey.
Male genitalia (fig. 2, 2–4). Valva nearly of trapezoid shape (fig. 2, 3). The arms of ventral plate as long as the length of valva (fig. 2, 4).
Female genitalia. Bursa copulatrix with signum in form of a widely spaced sclerotized formation (fig. 3, 5).
R e m a r k s. Externally resembles Argyresthia conjugella Zell., but can be readily distinguished from it by the colour of thorax, forewing pattern as well as a shape of valva in the male genitalia.
This species was unknown in Russia till now.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1973-07-16
- Family
- Argyresthiidae
- Genus
- Argyrestia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Moriuti
- Species
- communana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1973-07-16
- Taxonomic concept label
- Argyrestia communana Moriuti, 1969 sec. Gershenson, 2016
References
- Moriuti, S. 1969. Argyresthiidae of Japan. Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture. Series B, 21, 1 - 30.