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<mods:title>A new genus and species of leaf-mining moth from the French Alps, Mercantourianeli gen. n., sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Huemer, Peter</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Triberti, Paolo</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2016</mods:date>
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<mods:number>586</mods:number>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.586.8375</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-586-145</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="127898459" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:FF3D1062-2586-4C50-AE95-440A1AC90230" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/3D57D92A3F6B628E35E2AD449C716E9D" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="153" pageId="3" pageNumber="148">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="148">Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Gracillariidae</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="148" type="nomenclature">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/FF3D1062-2586-4C50-AE95-440A1AC90230" authority="Huemer, Lopez-Vaamonde & Triberti" class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Mercantouria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mercantouria neli" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="148" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neli">Mercantouria neli Huemer, Lopez-Vaamonde & Triberti</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="3" pageNumber="148">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 1, 2, 3, 4-5, 6-7
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<subSubSection lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="150" pageId="4" pageNumber="149" type="type material">
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material.
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Holotype ♂ (Fig. 1): "Frankreich Dep. Alpes-Maritimes Col de la Cayolle N
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="6.7391667">6°44'21"E</geoCoordinate>
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="44.280277">44°16'49"N</geoCoordinate>
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2080 m, 19.7.2013 leg. Mayr" "P.Huemer TIN 94 ♂" "DNA Barcode TLMF Lep 16937" (TLMF).
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Paratypes: 1 ♀, Frankreich, Alpes-Maritimes, N Col de la Cayolle, Col de la Boucharde N,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="6.743334">6°44'36"E</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="44.283333">44°17'0"N</geoCoordinate>
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, 1950m, 7.7.2012 leg. Huemer, TLMF 2013-010 (gen.slide P.Huemer TIN 93 ♀; DNA Barcode ID TLMF Lep 08375); 1 ♂, Frankreich, Alpe-Maritimes, PN Mercantour, 2115 m, Col de la Cayolle Nord,
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44°16,78'
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="6.7386665">E6°44,32'</geoCoordinate>
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, 21.7.2014, leg. Drouet (gen. slide P.Huemer TIN 95 ♂; DNA Barcode ID TLMF Lep 16938); 1 ♀, Htes-Alpes, Ristolas, La Roche Ecroute, 1750 m, 12.7.2010, leg. Nel, genitalia slide 24139 J. Nel (all coll. TLMF).
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="150" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="150">Description</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="150">(Fig. 1). Head. Labial palpus pale ochre-yellowish, apical segment dark brown medio-basally. Legs smooth scaled, dark brown with exception of hind leg that are lighter; all tarsi white.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="150">Thorax. Dorsum and tegulae ochre yellow. Forewing pale ochre yellow with small spots or suffusion of dark brown, mostly along the discoidal cell and sometimes forming, in the apical third of the wing, an irregular fascia. Hindwing light ochre-greyish.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="150">Abdomen, male and female genitalia. See under the genus description.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="150" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="150">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="150">Named in honour of Dr. Jacques Nel (La Ciotat, France) who independently recognized and collected the new species.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="151">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="6" pageNumber="151" start="start">Diagnosis</pageBreakToken>
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<paragraph lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="152" pageId="6" pageNumber="151">
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Superficially the adult of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Mercantouria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mercantouria neli" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="151" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neli">Mercantouria neli</taxonomicName>
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can be confused with some members of the
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Gracillaria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gracillaria" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="151" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Gracillaria</taxonomicName>
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group, like light coloured specimens of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Caloptilia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Caloptilia roscipennella" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="151" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="roscipennella">Caloptilia roscipennella</taxonomicName>
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(
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Hübner">Huebner</normalizedToken>
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, 1796) and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Aspilapteryx" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aspilapteryx limosella" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="151" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="limosella">Aspilapteryx limosella</taxonomicName>
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(Duponchel, 1843). However, in both species a trace remains of neat rows of darkish small spots, along the costa in the former and in the middle of wing in the latter, while in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Mercantouria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mercantouria neli" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="151" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neli">Mercantouria neli</taxonomicName>
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the dark scales create confused and ill-defined spots. In the male genitalia, the short valva with a protruded sacculus shows some affinity to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Aspilapteryx" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aspilapteryx" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="151" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Aspilapteryx</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Eucalybites" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eucalybites" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="151" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Eucalybites</taxonomicName>
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species, particularly
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Aspilapteryx" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aspilapteryx spectabilis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="152" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="spectabilis">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="7" pageNumber="152" start="start">Aspilapteryx</pageBreakToken>
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spectabilis
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Eucalybites" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eucalybites aureola" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="152" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aureola">Eucalybites aureola</taxonomicName>
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. However, the new species can be easily separated by the straight cucullus and the numerous, thickened setae along its margin and costa. The female genitalia are easily distinguishable from other species of the
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Gracillaria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gracillaria" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="152" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Gracillaria</taxonomicName>
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group by the heavily sclerotized sternum 7, which is flap shaped, lobate on caudal margin and about as long as tergum 7. A similar structure is present in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Eucalybites" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eucalybites aureola" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="152" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aureola">Eucalybites aureola</taxonomicName>
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but with the sternum 7 much narrower, about half of tergum, and a heavily sclerotized sterigma with a complicated shape (
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<bibRefCitation author="Kumata, T" journalOrPublisher="Insecta Matsumurana" pageId="11" pageNumber="156" pagination="1 - 186" title="A taxonomic revision of the Gracillaria group occurring in Japan (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)." volume="26" year="1982">Kumata 1982</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="152" type="molecular data">
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="152">Molecular data.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="152">
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We obtained DNA barcode data for all 39 individuals and H3 data for 32 out of the 39 samples (Suppl. material 1). The three DNA barcodes obtained for
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Mercantouria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mercantouria neli" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="152" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neli">Mercantouria neli</taxonomicName>
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(maximum intraspecific distance = 0.49%) fall within the same Barcode Index Number (BOLD:ACA9784) allowing the unequivocal identification of the new species. The nearest neighbor is the North American species
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Caloptilia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Caloptilia scutellariella" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="152" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="scutellariella">Caloptilia scutellariella</taxonomicName>
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(Braun, 1923) (BOLD:AAU2901) and associated or possibly misidentified DNA clusters (BOLD:ABX8283, BOLD:AAP8031) at a genetic distance of 8.41%.That would suggest that the new species could be a representative of the genus
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Caloptilia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Caloptilia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="152" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Caloptilia</taxonomicName>
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. However, the generic assignment of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Caloptilia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Caloptilia scutellariella" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="152" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="scutellariella">Caloptilia scutellariella</taxonomicName>
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seems doubtful from genitalia morphology and needs further revision.
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The ML analysis shows that the new species falls within a clade formed by six
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species and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Gracillaria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gracillaria syringella" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="152" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="syringella">Gracillaria syringella</taxonomicName>
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, although with low bootstrap support (Fig. 9). MP analysis returned four most parsimonious trees. The semistrict consensus is shown in Fig. 10.
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<caption pageId="7" pageNumber="152">
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="152">Figure 9. Maximum likelihood tree based on COI and H3 sequences for 43 Gracillariid species. -ln likelihood = 11983.13. Bootstrap values are indicated for nodes more than 50% support (1000 replications). The general time reversible model of sequence evolution was used with the following settings: LSet nst=6 rclass=(abcdef) rmatrix=(2.9833028 10.54651 15.145156 9.0102019 24.833933) basefreq=(0.26825699 0.20834936 0.17265202) rates=gamma shape=1.0542648 pinv=0.53477118).</paragraph>
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<caption pageId="7" pageNumber="152">
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="152">Figure 10. Semistrict consensus tree of four most parsimonious trees (length 2618, consistency index (CI) 0.272, and retention index (RI) 0.385). Bootstrap values are indicated for nodes more than 50% support (1000 replications).</paragraph>
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Host-plant and early stages are unknown.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gracillariidae" genus="Mercantouria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mercantouria neli" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neli">Mercantouria neli</taxonomicName>
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was collected only in singletons so far, either at dusk or during the night at light. The flight period seems to be short, lasting from mid- to late July. The habitat (Fig. 11) is dominated by subalpine scree and grassland on limestone soil. Vertical distribution: from about 1750 to 2100 m.s.l.
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Figure 11. Type locality of
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sp. n. near Col de la Cayolle.
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="153">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="153">The new species is so far known from a small area of the French Hautes-Alpes and Alpes-Maritimes.</paragraph>
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