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
4257
1
1
70
journal article
33173
10.5281/zenodo.556874
90f99d44-c68c-4602-90f1-2802409db73d
1175-5326
556874
98E19676-EC03-4026-B4B6-39BEC10B5A05
39.
Stigmella kristenseni
Diškus & Stonis, 2016
(
Figs 1
,
34
,
37
)
Stigmella kristenseni
Diškus & Stonis, in
Stonis
et al
. 2016d
: 69
, figs 191–203.
Material
examined.
1 ♂
(
holotype
),
PERU
, Dept.
Lima
,
45 km
NE Chosica
,
Millo Valley
,
Quabrada Yanac
,
11°36'30"S
,
76°24'18"W
, elevation ca.
4000 m
,
26–28.i.1987
,
O. Karsholt
, genitalia slide no. AD
670♂
(
ZMUC
)
;
1 ♂
, Dept.
Ayacucho
, 25
W Puquio
,
Senal Cerro Palmaderas
,
14°39'41"S
,
74°27'31"W
, elevation ca.
4100 m
,
10– 12.iii.1987
,
O. Karsholt
, genitalia slide no. AD
654♂
(
ZMUC
)
.
Diagnosis.
This rather large, externally speckled, in male genitalia highly peculiar species differs from other known
Stigmella
by presence of spined inner process of valva, rod-like thickening of vinculum plate and narrow, apically widening spinose phallus.
Male
(Figs 191, 192). Described in
Stonis
et al
. 2016d
: 69, figs 191, 192. Forewing length about
3.8 mm
; wingspan about
8.1–8.2 mm
.
Female.
Unknown.
Male genitalia.
Illustrated in
Stonis
et al
. 2016d
: figs 193–203.
Bionomics
Adults fly in late January and March. Otherwise biology unknown.
Distribution
(
Fig. 1
). This species occurs in the high Peruvian Andes (
Peru
:
Lima
Departamento and
Ayacucho
Departamento) at altitudes about
4000–4100 m
.