Stigmella mustelina Remeikis & Stonis, 2016

Stonis, Jonas R., Diškus, Arūnas, Remeikis, Andrius, Karsholt, Ole & Torres, Nixon Cumbicus, 2017, Illustrated review of the leaf-mining Nepticulidae of the central Andes (Peru and Bolivia), Zootaxa 4257 (1), pp. 1-70 : 31

18. Stigmella mustelina Remeikis & Stonis, 2016

( Figs 1, 4 , 33 , 37 )

Stigmella mustelina Remeikis & Stonis, in Stonis et al. 2016d: 58 , 60, 61, figs 162–166.

Material examined. 2 ♂ (holotype and paratype), PERU, Dept. Lima, 10 km N Oyón, Quabrada Quichas, Pueblo Quichas , 10°34'17"S, 76°46'03"W, elevation about 4000 m, 24–26.ii.1987, O. Karsholt, genitalia slide no. RA 550♂ (holotype), AD 667♂ (paratype) ( ZMUC) .

Diagnosis. The combination of: white spots on pale, speckled forewing, deeply divided uncus, and specific set of cornuti which includes scattered minute cornuti and a cluster of 2–3 spine-like cornuti distinguishes S. mustelina from all other Stigmella species.

Male ( Fig. 33 ). Described in Stonis et al. 2016d: 58, fig. 162. Forewing length 3.2–3.6 mm; wingspan about 6.9–7.6 mm.

Female. Unknown.

Male genitalia. Illustrated in Stonis et al. 2016d: figs 163–166.

Bionomics Adults fly in February. Otherwise biology unknown.

Distribution ( Fig. 1 ). This species occurs in the high Peruvian Andes ( Peru: Lima Departamento) at altitudes 4000 m.

Figures

FIGURE 33. Adults of the central Andean Nepticulidae.

FIGURE 37. Diagnostics of the central Andean Stigmella.

FIGURES 1 – 8. Distribution of the central Andean Nepticulidae. 1, high-Andean species recorded at altitudes above 3700 m (after Stonis et al. 2016 d); 2, species recorded at altitudes below 3700 m; 3 – 8, some collecting areas in the Peruvian Andes.