Micrurapteryx caraganella ( Hering, 1957 )

Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, Zootaxa 4652 (1), pp. 1-55 : 15

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5584208

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scientific name

Micrurapteryx caraganella ( Hering, 1957 )
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Micrurapteryx caraganella ( Hering, 1957) View in CoL

( Figs 5A View FIGURE 5 , 10 View FIGURE 10 A–B)

Material examined. Russia: AO, Skovorodino , 53.98N, 123.93E, 431 m alt., Caragana arborescens , 26. VI GoogleMaps .2016, 4 pupae, 2 adults (reared from leaf mines), 1 male / genitalia slide [38-male], 1 female / [39-female] ( Fig. 5A View FIGURE 5 ), deposited in SIF .

Leaf mine. Flat whitish green blotch, slightly branched, on the upper side of the leaflet above the midrib, often occupies entire leaflet ( Fig. 10A View FIGURE 10 ); starts as a relatively long narrow epidermal tunnel on the lower surface of the leaflet ( Fig. 10B View FIGURE 10 ). Hardly any frass is accumulated in the blotch part of the mine as the larva regularly ejects frass pellets from the mine protruding rear part of the body through a small slit on the underside of leaflet. When most of parenchyma is eaten out, the larva vacates the mine and creates a new one on the same or a neighboring leaf. Vacated mine soon turns brownish, the epidermis covering mine cracks and gets loose. Pupation on the lower surface of a leaflet (occasionally on the upper side), in a transparent glossy cocoon ( Fig. 10B View FIGURE 10 ).

Trophic specialization. Oligophagous on Fabaceae : Caragana arborescens , C. frutex , C. boisii , Medicago sativa (Kirichenko et al. 2016) .

Distribution. Russia: RFE—AO ( Kirichenko et al. 2017b), southern Siberia (Kirichenko et al. 2016); European part ( Kozlov et al. 2017).

Remarks: In early literature, the species was confused with M. gradatella (Herrich-Schäffer) , which feeds on other Fabaceae : Lathyrus and Vicia and has distinctive characters in male genitalia (see literature revision and the species diagnosis in Kirichenko et al. (2016)). In 2016, numerous mines of M. caraganella were documented on C. arborescens in Scovorodino , AO ( Kirichenko et al. 2017b).

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

SIF

Senckenbergisches Institut

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