Southern Andean Stigmella sinuosa complex (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae): unraveling problematic taxonomy with a pictorial key of adults?
Author
Stonis, Jonas R.
Author
Remeikis, Andrius
text
Zootaxa
2016
4136
2
309
322
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.3
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1175-5326
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Documentation of
Stigmella
species 642
(
Figs 19–22
)
Material examined.
1 Ƌ,
ARGENTINA
, Neuquen, San Martin de los Andes, elevation ca.
640 m
,
17.x.1981
, Nielsen & Karsholt, genitalia slide no. RA642 (
ZMUC
).
Diagnosis.
From the most resembling
S. sinuosa
and particularly
S. mevia
it differs in the combination of characters illustrated in fig. 22.
Male
(
Fig. 19
). Forewing length 3.2 mm; wingspan 7.1 mm. Head: palpi brownish cream; frontal tuft unknown, rubbed, only few pale brown piliform scales left; collar brown; scape brownish cream speckled with pale brown lamellar scales; antenna distinctly longer than half the length of forewing; flagellum with 43 segments, greybrown on upper side and underside. Thorax, tegula and forewing densely speckled with grey-brown to dark greybrown scales with weak purple iridescence. Forewing with some silvery shiny (at certain angle also with little golden gloss) scales apically; fringe grey-brown, distally pale grey-brown; underside of forewing grey-brown, without spots. Hindwing and its cilia grey-brown with some purple iridescence on upper side and underside; without androconia. Legs ochre-brown, with some grey-brown scales on upper side. Abdomen fuscous on upper side and underside; anal tufts short, brownish grey; genital plates brown.
Female
. Unknown.
Male genitalia
(
Figs 20–22
). Capsule longer (
330 mm
) than wide (
200 mm
). Phallus (
Fig. 21
)
260 mm
long,
116 mm
wide; vesica with 7 horn-like cornuti (
Figs 21
,
22
).
Bionomics.
Host-plant: unknown. Adults fly in October.
Distribution
. Known from the western (mountainous)
Argentina
at elavation about
640 m
.