LEPIDOPTERA, Linnaeus, 1758

Kirichenko, N. I., Akulov, E. N., Babichev, N. S., Mikhailova, I. A., Ponomarenko, M. G. & Lopez-Vaamonde, C., 2019, PAST DISTRIBUTION OF TILIA-FEEDING PHYLLONORYCTER MICROMOTH (LEPIDOPTERA: GRACILLARIIDAE) IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST BASED ON SURVEY OF HISTORICAL HERBARIUM, Far Eastern Entomologist 390, pp. 19-32 : 19

MICROMOTH ( LEPIDOPTERA : GRACILLARIIDAE ) IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST BASED ON SURVEY OF HISTORICAL HERBARIUM

N. I. Kirichenko 1, 2*), E. N. Akulov 3), N. S. Babichev 1), I. A. Mikhailova 1), M. G. Ponomarenko 4, 5), C. Lopez-Vaamonde 6, 7)

1) Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Federal Research Center « Krasnoyarsk Science

Center SB RAS», Akademgorodok, 50/28, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia. E-mail: [e-mail].

*Corresponding author, E-mail: [e-mail]

2) Siberian Federal University, Svobodny Prospect, 79, Krasnoyarsk 660041, Russia.

3) All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center, Krasnoyarsk branch, Maerchaka str., 31a,

Krasnoyarsk 660075, Russia. E-mail: [e-mail]

4) Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia. E-mail: [e-mail]

5) Far Eastern Federal University, bld. L, Russky Island, Vladivostok 690922, Russia.

6) INRA, UR0633 Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, F-45075, France. E-mail: carlos.

[e-mail]

7) Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte (IRBI), UMR 7261, CNRS/Université de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Tours, 37200, France.

Summary. Distribution data of Tilia -feeding Phyllonorycter in the Russian Far East have been retrieved from a century-old Tilia herbarium stored in Vladivostok. Overall, 280 typical mines of Phyllonorycter , some with larvae and pupae, were found on 61 out of 799

herbarized specimens of Tilia spp. collected in Khabarovskii krai and Primorskii krai. For the first time, the presence of Tilia -feeding Phyllonorycter has been documented in Amurskaya oblast and Jewish Autonomous oblast. High densities of the leafminer have been recorded on

Tilia amurensis sampled in Khabarovskii krai and Primorskii krai between 1937 and 2005

suggesting a population dynamics with recurrent outbreaks. Our results confirm the importance of historical herbarium collections in studying trophic interactions and invasion ecology of folivore organisms.