Phyllonorycter, Hübner, 1822

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 : 32

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6A7D6858-A43D-4FD5-8B76-FE3C1EB8DAB3

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4F5D878B-255E-E077-FF79-BE5FFBB9F8CD

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Plazi

scientific name

Phyllonorycter
status

 

Phyllonorycter View in CoL sp. 7

( Fig. 14A View FIGURE 14 )

Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe , forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.17E, 224 m alt., Ulmus glabra , 23.VII.2016, 1 pupa, NK550 GoogleMaps , MK 403718 View Materials ; SO, Sakhalin Island, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , BGIS, 47.05N, 142.74E, 57 m alt., U. davidiana var. japonica , 12.VII.2017, 1 larva, NK626 GoogleMaps , MK 403715 View Materials , deposited in INRA.

Leaf mine. The mine is an elongated, significantly contracted blotch, strictly between the secondary veins on the lower side of the leaf ( Fig. 14A View FIGURE 14 ). Later, the epidermis-covering mine becomes brown as usually happens to vacated mines, but in this case the larva is still present in the mine ( Fig. 14A View FIGURE 14 ). Pupation in the mine.

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Ulmus : U. glabra , U. davidiana var. japonica (Ulmaceae) .

Distribution. Russia: RFE—PK, SO (Sakhalin Island).

Remarks. BIN of unknown species—BOLD: ACN4282. No genetic divergence detected between the two DNA barcoded specimens of Phyllonorycter sp. 7 from Ulmus glabra and U. davidiana var. japonica . In BOLD, the closest neighbor to Phyllonorycter sp. 7 is an unidentified Phyllonorycter sampled from Ulmus in Taiwan, with minimal interspecific distance 4.9%, followed by the European species, Ph. tristrigella , 5.5%. In East Asia, five Ulmus -feeding species occur: Ph. bicinctella (Matsumura) (hosts: Ulmus davidiana var. japonica , U. pumila ), Ph. laciniatae (Kumata) ( U. davidiana var. japonica , U. laciniata , U. pumila ), Ph. pumilae (Ermolaev) ( U. pumila ), Ph. ulmi (Kumata) ( U. davidiana , U. davidiana var. japonica , U. laciniata , Zelkova serrata , and Ph. valentina (Ermolaev) ( U. davidiana var. japonica , U. macrocarpa ) ( De Prins & De Prins 2018). Among these species, the sequences of two species, Ph. pumilae and P. ulmi , are only available in genetic databases. The minimum interspecific divergence between Phyllonorycter sp. 7 and the two species Ph. ulmi and Ph. pumila reaches 7.5% and 12.2%., respectively ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ). Phyllonorycter sp. 7 may potentially be Ph. laciniatae that develops on U. davidiana var. japonica in East Asia, but less likely Ph. bicinctella or Ph. valentina that feed on other Ulmus species.

MK

National Museum of Kenya

SO

Sofia University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gracillariidae

SubFamily

Lithocolletinae

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