Pammene grunini (Kuznetzov, 1960)

Song, Young-Gwang, Na, Sol-Moon, Lee, Ji-Young, Oh, Jae-In, Cho, Kyung-Ho & Byun, Bong-Kyu, 2025, Description of a new species and one newly recorded species of the genus Pammene Hübner, [1825] (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae, Olethreutinae, Grapholitini) from Korea, Zootaxa 5716 (1), pp. 126-132 : 129-131

Pammene grunini (Kuznetzov, 1960)

Laspeyresia grunini Kuznetzov, 1960: 197 . TL: Russia

Adult ( Fig. 3 ). Wingspan 10–11 mm. Head and frons blackish brown; antenna grayish fuscous; labial palpus grayish ocherous. Thorax and abdomen blackish brown. Forewing slightly narrow with elongated termen; ground color grayish brown, bearing plumbeous dots and strigulae terminally; apex reddish brown; dorsal blotch well defined, broad creamy white strigulae near middle of dorsum; ocelloid patch ill-defined, cilia pale brown. Hindwing ground color white; suffused with dark brown scales on apical 1/3; cilia grayish-white, with a brown subbasal line.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 5 ). Tegumen well sclerotized. Valva broad, elongate; Cucullus ovate, with slender spines at lower margin; sacculus well sclerotized, with a produced angle forming a distinct lobe. Aedeagus broad basally, narrowed apically, with a few small cornuti.

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Material examined. [ Korea] 5♂, Donam-ri, Geumnam-myeon, SJ, 30 iv 2015 (leg. BK Byun), gen. slide no. HNUSEL-3175, 6646, 6873, 6874, 6875-coll. HNUSEL. 1♂, Mt. Cheonggye , S, 5 v 1997 (leg. Y.M Park & J.S. Lee), gen. slide. no. 5300-coll. HNUSEL .

Distribution. Korea (new record), Russia, Japan.

Host plant. Galls on Quercus mongolica and Q. crispula ( Danilevsky & Kuznetzov 1968) .

Figures

FIGURES 2–5. Adults of Pammene. 2, Pammene sterigmata sp. nov. (Holotype); 2a, ditto, lateral view of head and labial palpus; 2b, ditto, antenna; 3, P. grunini; 4, female genitalia of P. sterigmata sp. nov. (♀, Holotype, gen. slide no. HNUSEL- 1018); 4a, magnification of sterigma; 4b, magnification of signa; 5, male genitalia of P. grunini (♂, gen. slide no. HNUSEL- 6874). Scale bars: 0.5 mm.