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Issue: Vol. 4040 No. 5: 13 Nov. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-11-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.5.6
Page range: 576–582
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 2

The first description of the leaf-mining Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) feeding on the South American plant genus Liabum, 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
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
Lepidoptera Ecuador host-plant leaf-mines Liabum Nepticulidae new species Stigmella

Abstract

First Liabum Adans. (Asteraceae) feeding Nepticulidae are reported. Two new new species from the Andes (Ecuador) are described: Stigmella serpantina Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov. and S. pangorica Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov. The male genitalia of both species and the female genitalia, as well the leaf-mines of S. serpantina sp. nov. are illustrated.