Illustrated review of the leaf-mining Nepticulidae of the central Andes (Peru and Bolivia)
Author
Stonis, Jonas R.
Author
Diškus, Arūnas
Author
Remeikis, Andrius
Author
Karsholt, Ole
Author
Torres, Nixon Cumbicus
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.556874
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1175-5326
556874
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21.
Stigmella calceolarifoliae
Diškus & Stonis, 2016
(
Figs 1
,
19–24
,
35
)
Stigmella calceolarifoliae
Diškus & Stonis, in
Stonis
et al
. 2016d
: 79
, 84, 85, figs 245–255.
Material examined.
1 ♂ (holotype),
2♀
(
paratypes
),
BOLIVIA
,
Copacabana
(southern shore of
Lake Titicaca
),
16°09'42"S
,
69°05'19"W
,
elevation
3930 m
, mining larvae
on
Calceolaria
sp.
28.iv.2014
, ex pupa
v.2014
, field card no. 5170,
A. Diškus
, genitalia slide nos AD
650♂
(
holotype
), AD
649♀
, AD
702♀
(
paratypes
) (
ZMUC
)
.
Diagnosis.
Belongs to
S. pandora
group. The combination of speckled forewing, distally four-lobed uncus, pointed apical processes of valva, long slender lobes of vinculum, transtilla without sublateral processes, and specific set of four large spine-like cornuti distinguishes
S. calceolarifoliae
from all other
Stigmella
species. The host-plant
Calceolaria
(Calceolariaceae)
also makes this species distinctive.
Male
(
Fig. 35
). Described in in
Stonis
et al
. 2016d
: 84, 85, fig. 246. Forewing length
2.5–2.8 mm
; wingspan
5.5–6.2 mm
.
Female.
Similar to male.
Male genitalia.
Illustrated in
Stonis
et al
. 2016d
: figs 246–248.
Female genitalia.
Illustrated in
Stonis
et al
. 2016d
: fig. 249.
Bionomics
(
Figs 131–133
). Larva mines in leaves of
Calceolaria
(Calceolariaceae)
(
Figs 131, 132
). Larva greyish white; mine in April. Leaf-mine as a gallery strongly widening in distal part (therefore resembling a blotch) (
Fig. 133
). In the beginning, beige to dark brown frass filling the whole width of the gallery; further the gallery widened to a blotch with dark brown to brown-black frass distributed irregularly, with very wide unfilled areas of the gallery left. Larval exit slit on upper side of the leaf. Cocoon pale beige to beige; length 2.0–
2.2 mm
, maximum width 1.0–
1.1 mm
.
Distribution
(
Fig. 1
). This species occurs in the Altiplano of the Bolivian Andes (
Bolivia
: southern shore of Lake Titicaca) at altitudes about
3930 m
(
Figs 19–24
).