Caloptilia gloriosa 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 : 17-18

Caloptilia gloriosa Kumata, 1966

( Fig. 6A )

Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe , forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.15E, 224 m alt., Acer pseudosieboldianum , 25.VII.2016, 1 male (reared from leaf mine), same location, host and date, NK532 ; 1 male (reared from leaf mine), 109.1, adult male and genitalia slide deposited in SIF, DNA in INRA.

Leaf mine. The mine and the leaf rolls are indistinguishable from those of C. acericola .

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Acer : A. japonicum , A. palmatum , A. pictum , A. sieboldianum (Sapindaceae) ( De Prins & De Prins 2018), A pseudosieboldianum (new record).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—KK ( Baryshnikova & Dubatolov 2016), PK, SO (Kuril Islands) ( Ermolaev 1977;

Baryshnikova 2008); Japan ( Kumata 1966).

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FIGURE 6. Male genitalia of Caloptilia and Phyllonorycter spp. from the Russian Far East. (A) Caloptilia gloriosa, host plant Acer pseudosieboldianum, genitalia slide [13-male]; (B) Phyllonorycter cavella, Betula dahurica, [11-2016-male]; (C) Ph. japonica, Corylus mandshurica, [4-2016-male]; (D) Ph. jozanae, Crataegus sp. [14Pj-2016-male]; (E) Ph. issikii, T. mandshurica, [NK596-male]. Sampling locations: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, (A–D) 22–25.VII.2016, (E) 21.VIII.2015. Scale bars: (A) 350, (B–E) 200 µm.