Phyllonorycter nipponicella ( Issiki, 1930 )

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 : 23

Phyllonorycter nipponicella ( Issiki, 1930)

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Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe , MTS, 43.69N, 132.15E, 152 m alt., Quercus mongolica , 23.VII.2016, 1 female (reared from leaf mine), 58.1 / [8-2016-female] ( Fig. 5B ), deposited in SIF.

Leaf mine. The mine is similar to Ph. nigristella .

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Quercus : Q. acutissima , Q. variabilis (Fagaceae) ( Kumata 1963; Kumata et al. 1983; Fujihara et al. 2000); Q. mongolica (new record).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—KK, PK, SO (Kuril Islands) (Baryshnikova 2016); Japan ( Kumata 1963), Korea ( Kumata et al. 1983).

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FIGURE 5. Female genitalia of gracillariids sampled in the Russian Far East. (A) Micrurapteryx caraganella, host plant Caragana arborescens, Skovorodino, Amurskaya Oblast, 26.VI.2016; genitalia slide [39-female]; (B) Phyllonorycter nipponicella, Quercus mongolica, PK, Gornotaezhnoe, 23.VII.2016, [8-2016-female]. Scale bars: (A) 550, (B) 100 µm.