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Issue: Vol. 4350 No. 2: 17 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.2.8
Page range: 331–344
Abstract views: 107
PDF downloaded: 72

First report on Paratischeria from Asia (Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae)

Leafminer Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gannan Normal University, Jiangxi 341000, China
Leafminer Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gannan Normal University, Jiangxi 341000, China
Leafminer Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gannan Normal University, Jiangxi 341000, China
Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Changzhi College, Shanxi 046011, China
Department of Biology and Chemistry, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Studentu St. 39, Vilnius LT-08106, Lithuania
Department of Biology and Chemistry, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Studentu St. 39, Vilnius LT-08106, Lithuania
Lepidoptera China Dalbergia assamica Helicteres isora Helicteres viscida host plants leaf-mines new species Paratischeria Tischeriidae Vietnam Yunnan

Abstract

We provide the first report on the leaf-mining Tischeriidae genus Paratischeria Diškus & Stonis from Asia. We describe Paratischeria jingdongensis Xu & Dai, sp. nov., a new species discovered in Yunnan, China, feeding on Dalbergia assamica Benth., Fabaceae and redescribe P. hestias (Meyrick, 1915), comb. nov., a hitherto very little known species from India, which has been recently discovered in northern Vietnam, feeding on Helicteres viscida Blume, Malvaceae. We also report on the Fabaceae family as a novel host-plant family of Tischeriidae. The described and redescribed Paratischeria species are illustrated with photographs of the leaf-mines, adults, genitalia, and habitats. We also provide maps of new Paratischeria findings, and, along with a diagnostic scheme to the genus, present some data on global distribution of Paratischeria occurring in tropical and subtropical regions on both sides of the Equator. In addition, we designate a new Paratischeria neotropicana species group and provide two more new taxonomic combinations: Paratischeria heteroterae (Frey & Boll, 1878) comb. nov. and P. capnota (Meyrick, 1915) comb. nov.

 

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