Review of the Palearctic Atemelia Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutoidea, Praydidae), with description of a new leafmining species
Author
Liu, Tengteng
Author
Yan, Jiahe
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4250.4.3
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Atemelia torquatella
(
Lienig
et
Zeller, 1846
)
Figures 4¯7, 9, 11, 13, 13a
Oecophora torquatella
Lienig & Zeller, 1846
: 279
.
Type
locality: Livland and Curland.
Atemelia torquatella
:
Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
: 9
, 33;
Pierce and Metcalfe, 1935
: 58
;
Agassiz, 1996
: 67
;
Beavan and Heckford, 2012
: 48
;
Sohn and Peralta, 2014
: 340
;
Lewis and Sohn, 2015
: 70
.
Atemelia compressella
Herrich-Schäffer
, [1855]: 112. Type locality: Germany (Mannheim).
Oecophora fuscifrontella
Stainton, 1849
: 13
. Type locality: England (Scotland).
FIGURES 10–11. Male pregenital abdomen of
Atemelia
spp.
10,
A. fusca
sp. nov.
, paratype, genitalia slide no. LIU16007; 11,
A. torquatella
, genitalia slide no. LIU16002, RMNH. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.
Wingspan 8.5¯
9.5 mm
, male smaller than female. Forewing fuscous, with variable pale creamy spots or fasciae (Figs 4¯7). Males in the extreme case nearly unicolorous, but with white scales traceable on tornus (Fig. 6). Females have more and larger white spots, with those on costa near apex and on tornus sometimes joined (Fig. 7).
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 9
).
Female genitalia
(
Figs 13, 13
a) are characterized in the Diagnosis of
A. fusca
sp. nov.
Pregenital abdomen
(
Fig 11
). Similar to
A. fusca
sp. nov.
Coremata extending out of the body from between sixth and seventh segment, although Moriuti (1977) declared the absence of coremata for
Praydidae
.
Diagnosis
. See the diagnosis of
A. fusca
sp. nov
.
Material
examined.
Netherlands
:
1 ♀
, [province of]
Limburg
,
Schinveld
[
50.96°N
,
6.0°E
], e. l. [
ex
larva]
on
Betula
,
18.IV.1987
, leg.
G.R. Langohr
, genitalia slide no. LIU16001 (
RMNH
)
;
1 ♂
, [province of
Noord-Brabant
],
Strabrechtse Heide
[
51.40°N
,
5.61°E
], [e. l.]
Betula
,
17.IV.1987
, leg.
G.R. Langohr
, genitalia slide no. LIU16002 (
RMNH
)
;
Finland
:
1 ♂
,
2 ♀
,
Suomi
Ppn:
Rovaniemen
mlk., 7¯
8.VI.1995
,
7.VI.1994
, leg.
M. Mutanen
(
ZMUO
)
;
1 ♂
,
Suomi
Ppn:
Rovaniemen
mlk.,
18.IX.1991
,
ex
larva, leg.
J. Itämies
(
ZMUO
)
.
Distribution.
Within Europe from Scandinavia and
Finland
to the Pyrenees,
Italy
, and
Macedonia
, and from Britain to northern
Russia
and
Hungary
(
Karsholt & Nieukerken 2013
).
Host plants.
Betula
spp. (
Betulaceae
),
Ulmus
spp. (
Ulmaceae
) (
Agassiz 1996
),
Myrica gale
(Myricaceae)
(
Beavan & Heckford 2012
).