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Issue: Vol. 4061 No. 2: 6 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.2.2
Page range: 119–130
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 4

First description of leaf-mining Nepticulidae and Tischeriidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) feeding on the Chilean endemic plant genus Podanthus Lag. (Asteraceae)

Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Studentų St. 39, Vilnius LT-08106, Lithuania.
Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Studentų St. 39, Vilnius LT-08106, Lithuania.
Institute of Ecology, Nature Research Centre, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius LT-08412, Lithuania.
Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto s/n, Loja, Ecuador.
Lepidoptera Astrotischeria Chile host-plants leaf-mines Nepticulidae new species Podanthus South America Stigmella.

Abstract

Despite taxonomic and conservation interest in the Chilean endemic plant genus Podanthus Lag. (Asteraceae: subfamily Asteroideae, tribe Heliantheae), no Podanthus-feeding Nepticulidae or Tischeriidae have ever been recorded. Here, on the basis of material reared from Podanthus from central Mediterranean Chile, we present the description of Stigmella podanthae sp. nov. (Nepticulidae) and a re-description of Astrotischeria chilei Puplesis & Diškus, 2003. Females and host-plant of the latter species were previously unknown. Both treated species are illustrated with numerous photographs of the leaf-mines, adults of both sexes, and male and female genitalia.

 

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