Phyllonorycter, Hübner, 1822

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 : 33

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

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Phyllonorycter
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Phyllonorycter View in CoL sp. 8 ( cf. pterocaryae Kumata )

( Figs 14 View FIGURE 14 B–C)

Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe , forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.15E, 224 m alt., Juglans mandshurica , 23.VII.2016, 1 larva, NK533 GoogleMaps , MK 403680 View Materials , deposited in INRA.

Leaf mine. The mine is a small oval silvery white blotch, slightly contracted in the late stage, usually without preceding epidermal tunnel; situated at the leaf margin on the upper side of the leaf ( Fig. 14B View FIGURE 14 ). Pupation in the mine, at the corner of the mine, in a slight depression similar to that observed in Phyllocnistis ( Fig. 14C View FIGURE 14 ).

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Juglans mandshurica (Juglandaceae) .

Distribution. Russia: RFE—PK.

Remarks. BIN of unknown species—BOLD: ADF4351. DNA barcode of Phyllonorycter sp. 8 is 3.1% divergent from the DNA barcodes of four Ph. pterocaryae (Kumata) specimens collected in Japan on J. mandschurica , whose identity was confirmed by adult morphology (Ohshima: personal observation). The fact that Phyllonorycter sp. 8 larvae feed on the same host as Ph. pterocaryae and make similar mines suggests that our finding may correspond to Ph. pterocaryae , which might have high intraspecific genetic variability. According to early records, Ph. pterocaryae is known in the southern part of Primorskii Krai ( Baryshnikova 2008, 2016). In BOLD, there are three other BINs corresponding to Phyllonorycter feeding on Juglandaceae : the two unidentified species on Platycarya ( Taiwan) , Pterocarya ( Vietnam), and one Phyllonorycter juglandis ( Japan) . Phyllonorycter sp. 8 matches none of these species, showing the divergence from them: 4.4, 7.5 and 11.8%, respectively ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ).

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