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Issue: Vol. 3300 No. 1: 4 May. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-05-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3300.1.2
Page range: 20–33
Abstract views: 50
PDF downloaded: 19

A new species of Bucculatrix Zeller (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) associated with Baccharis salicifolia (Asteraceae) in northern Chile

Departamento de Recursos Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 6-D, Arica, Chile
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre RS, 91.501-970, Brazil
Lepidoptera leaf-mining moths Neotropical region hypermetamorphosis molting cocoon pupal cocoon

Abstract

Male, female and immature stages of Bucculatrix mirnae sp. n., from the Azapa Valley, coastal desert of northern Chile, aredescribed and illustrated, under optical and scanning electron microscopy. The immature stages are associated with the shrubBaccharis salicifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers. (Asteraceae). The larva is hypermetamorphic, having five instars and two feedinghabits. The first, second and third instars are leaf miners, and the fourth and fifth instars are leaf skeletonizers. This is the first species of Bucculatricidae described from Chile.

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