Caloptilia heringi Kumata, 1966

Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, Zootaxa 4652 (1), pp. 1-55 : 18

Caloptilia heringi Kumata, 1966

( Fig. 10G )

Material examined. Russia: SO, Sakhalin Island, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Gagarin Park , 46.96N, 142.75E, 69 m alt., Acer pictum , 11.VII.2017, 1 larva, NK624 , MK 403704 , deposited in INRA.

Leaf mine. The mine and the leaf rolls are similar to those of C. acericola and C. gloriosa , however the mine of C. heringi is smaller and the folded leaf margin stage is often missing (instead larvae make a cone from the leaf tip right after vacating mine) ( Fig. 10G ).

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Acer pictum (Sapindaceae) ( Kumata 1966).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—KK, PK ( Ermolaev 1977; Baryshnikova & Dubatolov, 2007; Baryshnikova 2008, 2016), SO (Sakhalin Island) (new record); Japan ( Kumata 1966).

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FIGURE 10. Mines, leaf shelters and pupation sites of Micrurapteryx and Caloptilia spp. from the Russian Far East. (A–B) Micrurapteryx caraganella, host plant Caragana arborescens; (C) M. gradatella, Vicia sp.; (D) Caloptilia acericola, Acer pseudosieboldianum; (E) C. alni, Alnus hirsuta; (F) C. betulicola, Betula platyphylla; (G) C. heringi, A. pictum; (H) C. stigmatella, Salix sp. Indications: (m) mine; (t) epidermal tunnel; (p) pupation site; (f) folded leaf margin or leaf tip; (r 1 –r 2) rolled leaf margin or leaf tip (the indexes 1 and 2 indicate the order of construction appearance); *mine of Diptera. Close up: (C, G, H) mine. Sampling locations: (A–C) AO, Skovorodino, 26.VI.2016; (D) PK, Gornotaezhnoe, MTS and forest, 22–27.VII.2016; (E–H) SO, Sakhalin Isl., Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 11–20.VII.2017.