Cameraria magnisignata Kumata, 1993

Bai, Haiyan, Xu, Jiasheng & Dai, Xiaohua, 2015, Three new species, two newly recorded species and one newly recorded genus of Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from China, Zootaxa 4032 (2), pp. 229-235 : 232

Cameraria magnisignata Kumata, 1993

Figs. 6 , 10 .

Cameraria magnisignata Kumata, 1993: 65 .

Adult. Wingspan 5.5 mm.

Material examined. China: Daqiutian, Jiulian Mountain, Jiangxi, 18. i. 2013 1 ♀ leg. Jiasheng Xu & Xiaohua Dai Slide No. B12098 ♀.

Host plants. Fabaceae : Pongamia spp., including P. pinnata (L.) Pierre ( Kumata 1993). In the present study, an unidentified plant of Fabaceae is recorded as host for C. magnisignata Kumata from China.

Distribution. China (Jiangxi), India.

Remarks. The specimen was reared from an unidentified legume. The larva creates blotch mine on both upper and lower surfaces of the host plant leaf ( Fig. 10 ). Image of adult is not included due to the badly worn forewing markings of the only one specimen.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 6 ) agree with Kumata (1993).

New record to China.

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 9. Genitalia. Scale bar 0.5 mm. 5. Chrysaster hagicola Kumata. 6. Cameraria magnisignata Kumata. 7 a, b. C. diplodura Bai, sp. nov. (a. male genitalia, b. © eighth sternite, ® vinculum). 8. C. rhynchophysa Bai, sp. nov. 9. C. jiulianshanica Bai, sp. nov.

FIGURES 10 – 12. Mine of larva. 10 a, b. an unidentified plant (Fabaceae), host of Cameraria magnisignata Kumata. 11. Cyclobalanopsis sp. (Fagaceae), host of C. diplodura Bai, sp. nov.. 12. Fissistigma uonicum (Annonaceae), host of C. rhynchophysa Bai, sp. nov.