Tischeria dodonaea Stainton, 1858 New for Iran

Alipanah, Helen, Nieukerken, Erik J. van, Farahani, Samira & Buszko, Jaroslaw, 2022, Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera) leafminers new to Iran, including Tischeria caucasica on Quercus: a sibling species of T. ekebladella or a case of clinal variation?, Nota Lepidopterologica 45, pp. 9-32 : 9

Tischeria dodonaea Stainton, 1858 New for Iran

Fig. 10A, C

Material examined.

Iran, East Azarbaijan Prov. , Kaleybar, 16.ix.2008, J. Buszko leg., Quercus macranthera , 1 ♂, emerged 26.iii.2009, genitalia slide EvN5288, HMIM .

Distribution.

Europe: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia (new record, BOLD, see Fig. 11 ), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; Asia: Turkey, Caucasus ( Diškus and Puplesis 2003a; Gozmány 2012; Laštůvka and Laštůvka 2015; Karsholt and van Nieukerken 2017).

Host plants.

Castanea sativa , Quercus cerris , Q. faginea , Q. x hispanica , Q. ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis , Q. petraea , Q. pubescens , Q. robur and Q. rubra ( Diškus and Puplesis 2003a; Ellis 2021).

Figures

Figure 10. Tischeria dodonaea Stainton, 1858, East Azarbaijan (Kaleybar), genitalia slide EvN 5288 (A, C) and Coptotriche gaunacella (Duponchel, 1843), Mazandaran (Neka), genitalia slide EvN 5295 (B, D). A, B. Mounted adult males, dorsal view; C, D. Male genitalia.

Figure 11. Neighbor Joining tree of DNA barcodes of European Tischeria, from dataset DS-TISCIRAN. BINs are given next to each cluster. Specimens identified as T. caucasica are given in red.