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Issue: Vol. 3557 No. 1: 21 Nov. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-11-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3557.1.1
Page range: 1–19
Abstract views: 66
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Revalidation of Oliera Brèthes (Lepidoptera: Cecidosidae) based on a redescription of O. argentinana and DNA analysis of Neotropical cecidosids

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre RS, 91501-970, Brazil
Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500. Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre RS, 91501-970, Brazil
Instituto Argentino de Investigaciónes de las Zonas Áridas, CONICET, Av. A. Ruiz Leal s/n, Parque General San Martin, Mendoza 5500, Argentina
Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 37012-7012, USA
Lepidoptera Gall moths Schinus Anacardiaceae Neotropics

Abstract

Larvae of Oliera argentinana, Brèthes 1916 (Lepidoptera: Cecidosidae) were rediscovered inducing spindle-shaped gallsenclosed within swollen stems of Schinus (Anacardiaceae) in central Argentina and Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmoststate of Brazil. Male, female, immature stages, and plant galls of O. argentinana are redescribed, using optical andscanning electron microscopy. The genus Oliera Brèthes, 1916, previously a junior synonym of Cecidoses Curtis, 1835,is revalidated, by comparing morphological characteristics within the family and through an analysis of mitochondrial(COI) DNA sequences, including putative members of the four Neotropical cecidosid genera. Information on preliminary Cecidosidae phylogeny and taxonomy is also provided.

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