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
The
Stigmella pseudodigitata
group (designated here) (species 38)
Diagnostics (
Fig. 37
): forewing without fascia, mostly brown, slightly speckled with dark brown scales or scales with blue and purple iridescence. In male genitalia, phallus with with a specific set of cornuti comprised of one large faceted cornutus and long digitate cornuti; uncus truncated; valva with one very long apical processes; transtilla with very short sublateral processes or without processes; vinculum with short ventral plate and rather small lateral lobes. Currently the group comprises of two very similar but still different Andean species: one from
Argentina
(
S. pseudodigitatta
Remeikis & Stonis
), the other from
Bolivia
(
S. azulella
Diškus & Stonis
,
sp. nov
.
) Trophic relationships unknown (host-plant of
S. azulella
remains unidentified); leaf-mine as a very long and narrow gallery along the leaf-margin).