Phyllonorycter sorbicola ( Kumata, 1963 ), 2018

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 : 29

Phyllonorycter sorbicola ( Kumata, 1963)

( Figs 13 C–D)

Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe , forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.17E, 224 m alt., Prunus maackii , 23.VII.2016, 1 larva, NK591 , MK 403721 , deposited in INRA.

Leaf mine. The mine is a white elongated, contracted blotch with indistinguishable folds on the epidermis covering the mine, with a relatively short preceding epidermal tunnel, between secondary veins on the lower side of the leaf ( Figs 13 C–D). Pupation in the mine.

Trophic specialization. Oligophagous on Rosaceae : Malus asiatica , M. pumila , Prunus padus , Sorbus alnifolia , S. commixta , S. matsumurana ( Kumata 1982; De Prins & De Prins 2018), Prunus maackii (new record).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—SO (Baryshnikova 2016), PK (new record); Japan ( Kumata 1963).

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FIGURE 13. Mines of Phyllonorycter spp. from the Russian Far East. (A–B) Ph. ringoniella, host plant Malus mandshurica; (C–D) Ph. sorbicola, Prunus padus and Prunus maackii respectively; (E) Ph. strigulatella, Alnus hirsuta; (F) Phyllonorycter sp. 1, Tilia mandshurica; (G–H) Phyllonorycter sp. 6, Acer pseudosieboldianum. Indications: (m) mine; (t) epidermal tunnel; (b) blotch. Close up: (B–C, F, H) mine. Sampling locations: (A–D, F–H) PK, Gornotaezhnoe, MTS and forest, 22–26.VII.2016; (E) SO, Sakhalin Isl., Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 11–20.VII.2017.