Phyllonorycter pseudojezoniella Noreika, 1994

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 : 28

Phyllonorycter pseudojezoniella Noreika, 1994

( Fig. 7D )

Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe , forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.15E, 224 m alt., Acer saccharum , 26.VII.2016, 1 male (reared from leaf mine), 26.VIII.2016 em ., NK-182-16 - 1 A / [20Pps-2016-male] ( Fig. 7D ), deposited in SIF.

Leaf mine. Blotch mine on the lower side of the leaf, between two secondary veins, at the later stage gets contracted. Pupation in the mine.

Trophic specialization. Host plant was not known ( Noreika 1994). We found mines solely on the plant species originating from North America, Acer saccharum (Sapindaceae) (new record).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—PK ( Noreika 1994).

Figures

FIGURE 7. Male genitalia of Phyllonorycter spp. from the Russian Far East. (A) Phyllonorycter junoniella, genitalia slide [21-male]; (B) Ph. pastorella, host plant Salix sp., [12Pp-2016-male]; (C) Ph. populifoliella, Populus balsamifera, [NK-561- 1-male]; (D) Ph. pseudojezoniella, Acer saccharum, [20Pps-2016-male]; (E) Ph. kisoensis, Alnus hirsuta, [5Pk-2016-male]. Sampling location: (A) SO, Sakhalin Isl., 14.VII.2017; (B, D) PK, Gornotaezhnoe, MTS, 22–26.VII.2016; (C) AO, Blagoveshchensk, 27.VI.2016. Scale bars 200µm.