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
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1
70
journal article
33173
10.5281/zenodo.556874
90f99d44-c68c-4602-90f1-2802409db73d
1175-5326
556874
98E19676-EC03-4026-B4B6-39BEC10B5A05
23.
Stigmella peruanica
Puplesis & Robinson, 2000
(
Figs 2
,
9
,
29
,
33
,
37
)
Stigmella peruanica
Puplesis & Robinson, 2000
: 27
–28, figs. 19, 104, 105.
Material
examined
.
1 ♂
(
holotype
),
PERU
, Dept.
Puno
,
5 km
E of Limbani
,
3000 m
,
28.iii.1987
,
O. Karsholt
, genitalia slide no.
Diškus
189 (
ZMUC
).
Diagnosis
. Belongs to the
S. marmorea
group. The combination of three golden shiny fasciae on the forewing, short lobes of vinculum, bilobed uncus with each lobe bearing two-three papillae, and numerous large cornuti on the vesica distinguishes
S. peruanica
from all other
Stigmella
species.
Male
(
Fig. 33
). Described in
Puplesis & Robinson 2000
: 27–28, fig. 19. Forewing length about
2.1 mm
; wingspan about
4.6 mm
.
Female
. Unknown.
Male genitalia
. Illustrated in
Puplesis & Robinson 2000
: 104, 105.
Bionomics.
Adults fly in March. Otherwise biology unknown.
Distribution
(
Fig. 9
). This species occurs in the Peruvian Andes (
Peru
:
Puno
Departamento) at altitudes about
3000 m
(
Fig. 29
).