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Issue: Vol. 4469 No. 1: 3 Sept. 2018
Type: Monograph
Published: 2018-09-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4469.1.1
Page range: 1–69
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American Asteraceae-feeding Astrotischeria species with a highly modified, three-lobed valva in the male genitalia (Lepidoptera, Tischeriidae)

Vytautas Magnus University and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Studentų St. 39, Vilnius LT-08106, Lithuania Nature Research Centre, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius LT-08412, Lithuania
Vytautas Magnus University and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Studentų St. 39, Vilnius LT-08106, Lithuania
Departamento de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Av. Perimetral, 1901, Montese, CEP 66077-830, CP 399, Belém, PA, Brazil
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom.
Lepidoptera American fauna Asteraceae Asteroidea Astrotisheria host plants leaf miners leaf mines Neotropics new species the trilobata group

Abstract

We review eleven Astrotischeria Puplesis & Diškus (Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae) species which possess a novel character for the Tischeriidae family: a highly modified valva of the male genitalia with one ventral and two dorsal lobes (or processes). The species are distributed in the Americas, including the USA, Caribbean (St. Thomas), Central America (Belize, Guatemala and Honduras), and South America (Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil). Species for which the biology has been studied are associated with host plants from Asteroidea of the Asteraceae family. The following seven species are described as new: Astrotischeria trilobata Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., A. amazonica Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., A. maya Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., A. selvica Diškus, Carvalho-Filho & Stonis, sp. nov., A. casila Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., A. onae Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., and A. furcata Stonis & Diškus, sp. nov. A new informal species unit, the A. trilobata group, is designated for diagnostic purposes despite some doubts about monophyly of the group. Astrotischeria longeciliata (Frey & Boll) is synonymized here with the North American A. helianthi (Frey & Boll), a species not belonging to the A. trilobata group, syn. nov. For the first time, a method of rearing of adults from mining larvae, specifically adopted for Tischeriidae, is detailed. All species treated in the paper are illustrated with photographs or drawings of the adults, male genitalia, and, if available, the female genitalia, leaf mines and habitats. A distribution map for the species of the A. trilobata group and a scheme of the trophic relationships of the global Tischeriidae fauna are also provided.

 

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