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
The
Stigmella marmorea
group (designated here) (species 22–28)
Diagnostics (
Fig. 37
): forewing varied: speckled or with one–two fasciae, occasionally glossy, without fascia; at least one species is known with distinctive androconia on abdomen. In male genitalia, phallus sometimes with very small to large apical spines and always with many loose large, mostly horn-like, cornuti; valva with two apical processes; transtilla with or without very small sublateral processes; uncus often with four caudal papillae, sometimes bilobed; gnathos with two caudal processes; vinculum large (occassionally very large), with small to large lateral lobes. Currently the group comprises of about 29 species from the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina: twenty-two of the species are described, remaining undescribed (Stonis
et al
. in prep.). Trophically species are associated with at least five plant families:
Euphorbiaceae
,
Rosaceae
,
Urticaceae
,
Lamiaceae
, and
Asteraceae
. Leaf-mines as rather slender galleries, occasionally with distal parts resembling blotches.