Revision of the Hawaiian endemic leaf-mining moth genus Philodoria Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): its conservation status, host plants and descriptions of thirteen new species
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Kobayashi, Shigeki
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Johns, Chris A.
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Kawahara, Akito Y.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-17
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Key to Hawaiian leaf mining moths including
Philodoria
1. Tentiform mine....................................................................................................
Cremastobombycia lantanella
Busck
¶
(
Gracillariidae
,
Lithocolletinae
), all
Hawaii
islands, host:
Lantana
spp.
- Short, tortuous linear, spiral mine, about ~
30 mm
length......................................................
2
- Long (tortuous) linear or blotch mine.....................................................................
3
2. Mature larva (3rd~ instar) is external feeding, nibbling the leaf tissue and skeletonizing it..
Bucculatrix thurberiella
Busck
¶
(
Bucculatricidae
), Oahu, host:
Gossypium tomentosum
(endemic Hawaiian cotton).
- Mature larva is leaf-mining, and mines leaf tissue forming several blotch mine............................................
Bedellia
Stainton (Bedelliidae)
, all Hawaiian Islands, host:
Convolvulaceae
,
Liliaceae
,
Poaceae
,
Urticaceae
. Hawaiian
Bedellia
include many unnamed species
¶
.
3. First instar larva is sap-feeding, forming whitish linear mine...................................................
4
- Larva tissue-feeding, forming linear or serpentine to blotch mines; cocoon usually situated outside of mine.........................................................................
Philodoria
Walsingham
(
Gracillariidae
,
Ornixolinae
)
4. Cocoon situated outside of mine, usually on surface of leaf....................................................
5
- Cocoon situated within end of mine, larvae mining leaves of
Rutaceae
(
Citrus
spp.)...................................................................................
Phyllocnistis citrella
Stainton
(
Gracillariidae
,
Phyllocnistinae
)
5. Late instar larva tissue feeding, cones created by rolling leaf....................................
Caloptilia
H̹bner
¶
- On
Diospyros hillebrandii
and
D. sandwicensis
(Ebenaceae)
, Oahu....................
C
.
mabaella
(Swezey)
(
Fig. 73D
)
- On
Myrica faya
(Myricaceae)
,
Hawaii
(Big Island)...............
Caloptilia
sp.
nr.
schinella
†
(=
coruscans
(Walsingham))
- Late instar larva tissue feeder in blotch mine elongated along the leaf edge; the leaf edge at the blotch is narrowly folded down; on
Terminalia catappa
(Combretaceae)
, Oahu....................................................
Ketapangia
sp.
*
This key, where only mines and/or cocoons have been examined, but not larvae or adults, can serve only as a partial aid to determination.
¶
Zimmerman (1978a)
;
†
Markin (2002)
;
Perreira and Yee (2016)
§
.