Phyllonorycter strigulatella ( Zeller, 1846 ), 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 : 29-30

Phyllonorycter strigulatella ( Zeller, 1846)

( Fig. 13E )

Material examined. Russia: SO, Sakhalin Island, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Gagarin Park , 46.96N, 142.75E, 69 m alt., Alnus hirsuta , 11.VII.2017, 1 male (reared from leaf mine) , NK- 75-17-2 / [19-male], deposited in SIF.

Leaf mine. The mine is a white oval blotch, with 2–3 folds on the epidermis surface, between the main vein and secondary veins, and may have a short preceding epidermal tunnel, on the lower side of the leaf ( Fig. 13E ). Pupation in the mine.

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Alnus : A. alnobetula , A. hirsuta , A. incana , A. minor , A. rugosa (Betulaceae) ( De Prins & De Prins 2018). Records on A. glutinosa need confirmation.

Distribution. Russia: RFE—KK, PK, SO ( Ermolaev 1977; Noreika 1997; Baryshnikova 2016), Siberia, European part ( Baryshnikova 2008); Europe ( De Prins & De Prins 2018), 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.