Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Authors: | J. R. Stonis, Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Karsholt, O. |
Journal: | Biologija |
Volume: | 62 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pagination: | 83-97 |
Date Published: | September-2016 |
ISSN: | 1392-0146 |
Keywords: | Conservation, Ecuador, Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae, New species, Peru, Rosaceae, Stigmella polylepiella |
Abstract: | Despite the fact that Polylepis forests constitute the natural but threatened vegetation in much of the high Andes and are very important for their ecological functions, no leaf-mining Nepticulidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea) associated with Polylepis Ruiz & Pav. as a host-plant have been recorded previously. In this paper, for the first time, we report on four discoveries of Polylepis-feeding Nepticulidae species in Ecuador and Peru. From the high Andes of Peru, we describe a new species Stigmella polylepiella Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., whose larvae throughout all instars are leaf-miners in leaves of Polylepis racemosa Ruiz & Pav. and spin a unique shaped cocoon inside the leaf-mine. We also provide illustrations and short descriptions of male genitalia and leaf-mines of two other new Stigmella Schrank species, whose larvae are leaf-miners on Polylepis pauta Hieron. in Ecuador; these two taxa are documented but left unnamed because they are described from dissected developed pupae, not emerged adults. Additionally, we document leaf-mines of an unknown Nepticulidae taxon associated with Polylepis racemosa in the Peruvian Andes. |
URL: | http://lmaleidykla.lt/ojs/index.php/biologija/article/view/3334 |
DOI: | 10.6001/biologija.v62i2.3334 |
Short Title: | biologija |
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