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Issue: Vol. 4136 No. 1: 5 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.1.4
Page range: 101–128
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The first record of Baccharis L. (Asteraceae) as a host-plant genus for Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera), with description of new Stigmella species from South America

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 Nature Research Centre, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius LT-08412, Lithuania
Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Studentų St. 39, Vilnius LT-08106, Lithuania Nature Research Centre, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius LT-08412, Lithuania
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Washington, D.C., 20013-7012, USA.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Washington, D.C., 20013-7012, USA
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto s/n, Loja, Ecuador
Lepidoptera Baccharis L. host-plants leaf-mines Nepticulidae new species South America Stigmella

Abstract

We record the first Nepticulidae species found to feed on Baccharis L. (Asteraceae). Despite the high species richness of Baccharis in the Western Hemisphere, no nepticulid has ever been recorded feeding on Baccharis. In this paper we describe six new Stigmella Schrank species feeding on Baccharis: S. emarginatae Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., S. bipartita Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., S. tripartita Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., S. latifoliae Remeikis, Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., S. baccharicola Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., and S. confertae Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov. The remaining two taxa are left unnamed. All taxa are illustrated with photographs of adults, their genitalia, and their leaf-mines. Additionally, leaf-mines on Baccharis salicifolia are documented.

 

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