Illustrated review of the leaf-mining Nepticulidae of the central Andes (Peru and Bolivia)
Author
Stonis, Jonas R.
Author
Diškus, Arūnas
Author
Remeikis, Andrius
Author
Karsholt, Ole
Author
Torres, Nixon Cumbicus
text
Zootaxa
2017
4257
1
1
70
journal article
33170
10.5281/zenodo.557156
8f75cf6f-6fce-41d6-a734-21babf75b7db
1175-5326
557156
98E19676-EC03-4026-B4B6-39BEC10B5A05
The
Stigmella expressa
group (designated here) (species 6 to 11)
Diagnostics (
Fig. 37
): forewing speckled to almost unicolorous pale (but not very glossy or shiny). In male genitalia, phallus with two horn-like cornuti; valva with two apical processes; uncus with three to four caudal papillae (not with two well-separated caudal lobes); gnathos with two closely juxtaposed caudal processes and usually with a laterally extended plate; vinculum usually with a large ventral plate and lateral lobes. Currently the group comprises of seven similar but still differing Andean species: one from
Ecuador
(
Stigmella lachemillae
Diškus & Stonis
) and six from
Peru
. Host-plant relationships: at least one species (
S. lachemillae
) feeds
on
Lachemilla
Rydb.
,
Rosaceae
, while larvae of
S. acalyphae
sp. nov.
and
S. lepida
sp. nov.
feed
on
Acalypha
L.,
Euphorbiaceae
.