Philodoria, Walsingham, 1907

Kobayashi, Shigeki, Johns, Chris A. & Kawahara, Akito Y., 2021, Revision of the Hawaiian endemic leaf-mining moth genus Philodoria Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): its conservation status, host plants and descriptions of thirteen new species, Zootaxa 4944 (1), pp. 1-175 : 16-17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4944.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:380D2F75-D4F9-4974-97E2-25E0C62CB3B0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4683540

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038087CB-FFE1-071F-FF75-91E7FC8AA04C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Philodoria
status

 

Key to Hawaiian leaf mining moths including Philodoria View in CoL

1. Tentiform mine.................................................................................................... Cremastobombycia lantanella Busck View in CoL ¶ ( Gracillariidae View in CoL , Lithocolletinae View in CoL ), all Hawaii islands, host: Lantana View in CoL spp.

- Short, tortuous linear, spiral mine, about ~ 30 mm length...................................................... 2

- Long (tortuous) linear or blotch mine..................................................................... 3

2. Mature larva (3rd~ instar) is external feeding, nibbling the leaf tissue and skeletonizing it.. Bucculatrix thurberiella Busck View in CoL ¶ ( Bucculatricidae View in CoL ), Oahu, host: Gossypium tomentosum View in CoL (endemic Hawaiian cotton).

- Mature larva is leaf-mining, and mines leaf tissue forming several blotch mine............................................ Bedellia Stainton (Bedelliidae) View in CoL , all Hawaiian Islands, host: Convolvulaceae View in CoL , Liliaceae View in CoL , Poaceae View in CoL , Urticaceae View in CoL . Hawaiian Bedellia View in CoL include many unnamed species ¶.

3. First instar larva is sap-feeding, forming whitish linear mine................................................... 4

- Larva tissue-feeding, forming linear or serpentine to blotch mines; cocoon usually situated outside of mine......................................................................... Philodoria Walsingham View in CoL ( Gracillariidae View in CoL , Ornixolinae View in CoL )

4. Cocoon situated outside of mine, usually on surface of leaf.................................................... 5

- Cocoon situated within end of mine, larvae mining leaves of Rutaceae View in CoL ( Citrus View in CoL spp.)................................................................................... Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton View in CoL ( Gracillariidae View in CoL , Phyllocnistinae View in CoL )

5. Late instar larva tissue feeding, cones created by rolling leaf.................................... Caloptilia View in CoL H̹bner ¶

- On Diospyros hillebrandii View in CoL and D. sandwicensis (Ebenaceae) View in CoL , Oahu.................... C. mabaella (Swezey) View in CoL ( Fig. 73D View FIGURE 73 )

- On Myrica faya (Myricaceae) View in CoL , Hawaii (Big Island)............... Caloptilia View in CoL sp. nr. schinella † (= coruscans (Walsingham))

- Late instar larva tissue feeder in blotch mine elongated along the leaf edge; the leaf edge at the blotch is narrowly folded down; on Terminalia catappa (Combretaceae) View in CoL , Oahu.................................................... Ketapangia View in CoL sp.

* This key, where only mines and/or cocoons have been examined, but not larvae or adults, can serve only as a partial aid to determination.

¶ Zimmerman (1978a); † Markin (2002); Perreira and Yee (2016) §.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gracillariidae

SubFamily

Ornixolinae

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