Phyllonorycter tritaenianella (Chambers, 1871)

Eiseman, Charles S. & Davis, Donald R., 2020, Wrong side of the leaf: assigning some Lithocolletinae species (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) to their proper genera, Zootaxa 4751 (2), pp. 201-237 : 231-232

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scientific name	Phyllonorycter tritaenianella (Chambers, 1871)
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Phyllonorycter tritaenianella (Chambers, 1871) View in CoL

( Figs. 71–73 View FIGURES 71–73 )

L.[ithocolletis] tri-taenianella Chambers 1871b: 110. Phyllonorycter tritaenianella (Chambers) — Davis 1983: 10.

Leaf mine. An upper-surface blotch; initially flat and white, speckled with brown ( Fig. 71 View FIGURES 71–73 ), later becoming tentiform and causing the leaf to fold over completely ( Fig. 73 View FIGURES 71–73 ) ( Braun 1908).

Host. Betulaceae : Ostrya virginiana (Mill.) K. Koch.

Distribution. Canada: ON, QC; USA: CT, IL, KY, MA, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH.

Review. Chambers (1871b) described this species from an adult caught in Kentucky. Chambers (1873) reported rearing it from an upper-surface mine on Ostrya , and Chambers (1874a) synonymized with this species Lithocolletis consimilella Frey & Boll , which had been described from Massachusetts ( Hagen 1884). Phyllonorycter tritaenianella has since been recorded from New Hampshire ( Brower 1984), Illinois ( Godfrey et al. 1987), Connecticut ( Maier & Davis 1989), Michigan ( Nielsen 1998), Ontario, and Quebec ( Pohl et al. 2018). CSE has reared an adult from a leaf mine collected in New York (Taughannock Falls State Park, Tompkins Co.; Figs. 71–72 View FIGURES 71–73 ), and mines have been found in Ohio (West Union, Adams Co.; CSE) and New Jersey (Sussex Co.; Rall 2019).

Comments. Maier & Davis (1989) stated that P. tritaenianella has at least two generations per year, listing Connecticut specimens reared from mines collected on 26 July and from 28 September to 19 October. Adults have been caught as early as April in Kentucky ( Chambers 1871b) and Illinois ( Godfrey et al. 1987), but 6 July appears to be the earliest date a larval mine has been documented (in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, by CSE; Fig. 73 View FIGURES 71–73 ). Our New York specimen emerged after overwintering in a mine collected on 30 August; thus it appears unlikely that a third generation occurs in northern states.

References

Braun, A. F. (1908) Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hubner. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 34, 269 - 357. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 17825

Brower, A. E. (1984) A list of the Lepidoptera of Maine. Part 2: The Microlepidoptera Section 2 Cosmopterigidae through Hepialidae. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin, 114, 1 - 70.

Chambers, V. T. (1871 b) Micro-lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 3, 108 - 112.

Chambers, V. T. (1873) Micro-lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 5, 44 - 50.

Chambers, V. T. (1874 a) Prof. Frey, of Zurich, and some American Teneina. The Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science, 1 (3), 193 - 211.

Davis, D. R. (1983) Gracillariidae. In: Hodges, R. W., Dominick, T., Davis, D. R., Ferguson, D. C., Franclemont, J. G., Munroe, E. G. & Powell, J. A. (Eds.), Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico. E. W. Classey Ltd. and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, London, pp. 9 - 11.

Godfrey, G. L., Cashatt, E. D. & Glenn, M. O. (1987) Microlepidoptera from the Sandy Creek and Illinois River Region: an annotated checklist of the suborders Dacnonypha, Monotrysia, and Ditrysia (in part) (Insecta). Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication, 7, 1 - 44.

Hagen, H. A. (1884) The types of Tineina in the collection of the museum in Cambridge, Mass., No. II. Papilio, 4, 151 - 154.

Maier, C. T. & Davis, D. R. (1989) Southern New England host and distributional records of lithocolletine Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera), with comparison of host specificity in temperate regions. Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America, 70, 1 - 23.

Nielsen, M. C. (1998) Preliminary list of Michigan moths: the Microlepidoptera. Newsletter of the Michigan Entomological Society, 43 (4), 1, 4 - 14.

Pohl, G. R., Landry, J. - F., Schmidt, B. C., Lafontaine, J. D., Troubridge, J. T., Macaulay, A. D., van Nieukerken, E. J., deWaard, J. R., Dombroskie, J. J., Klymko, J., Nazari, V. & Stead, K. (2018) Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Series Faunistica, Pensoft, 118, 1 - 580.

Rall, S. (2019) Phyllonorycter tritaenianella. Available from: https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 20876168 (accessed 23 September 2019)