Lyonetiidae of Turkey with notes on their distribution and zoogeography (Lepidoptera)
Author
Seven, Selma
text
Zootaxa
2006
1245
53
58
journal article
50620
10.5281/zenodo.172914
6128eb59-ba80-44af-af58-5e46e1cd0f12
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172914
Leucoptera laburnella
(Stainton, 1851)
(
Fig.1
a, b)
Synonym:
laburnella
Stainton, 1851
;
f.
wailesella
Stainton, 1858
.
Material examined
Ordu: PerŞembe, Çaytepe,
100 m
,
12.06.1995
, leg. M. Özdemir,
1 ♂
· (GPNo: 2054 ♂).
Host plants
Laburnum,
Genista
,
occasionally
Lupinus polyphyllyus
,
Koeleria
,
Petteria, Cytisus
laburnum
, and
Astragalus
(
Heinemann 1877
,
Hering 1957
,
Balachowsky 1966
,
Seksyaeva 1981
,
Baryshnikova 1996
).
Distribution
Russia
(Dagestan, Derbent) and Europe (
Baryshnikova 1996
). Distribution in
Turkey
(
Fig. 2
): Ordu (new record for
Turkey
).
FIGURE 1.
Leucoptera laburnella
(Stainton)
. a) adult moth; b) male genitalia.
FIGURE 2.
Geographic distribution of Lyonetidae in Turkey.
Remarks
This species was collected together with
Coleophora vibicella
(Hübner, [1813]) from galleries in
Genista
in Ordu province.
L. laburnella
is new to
Turkey
, and this record confirms the use of
Genista tinctoria
which has been mentioned as the food plant of
L. laburnella
elsewhere.