Phyllonorycter kisoensis Kumata et Park, 1978

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 kisoensis Kumata et Park, 1978

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Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe , MTS, 43.69N, 132.15E, 152 m alt., Alnus hirsuta , 22.VII.2016, 1 male (reared from leaf mine), 45.1 / [5Pk-2016-male] ( Fig. 4G , 7E ), deposited in SIF.

Leaf mine. The mine is indistinguishable from Phyllonorycter strigulatella .

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Alnus hirsuta (Betulaceae) ( Kumata & Park 1978).

Distribution. Russia: RFE—KK, PK, SO (Sakhalin Island) (Baryshnikova 2016); Japan ( Kumata & Park 1978).

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FIGURE 4. Forewing pattern of Phyllonorycter spp. from the Russian Far East. (A) Ph. caraganella, host plant Caragana fruticosa, NK- 184-16-9A; (B) Ph. cavella, Betula dahurica, 111.1; (C) Ph. cretata, Quercus mongolica, NK-85-17-4; (D) Ph. issikii, T. mandshurica, NK596; (E) Ph. japonica, Corylus mandshurica, 36.2; (F) Ph. jozanae, Crataegus sp., 44.1; (G) Ph. kisoensis, Alnus hirsuta, 45.1; (H) Ph. pastorella, Salix sp., 49.1; (I) Ph. reduncata, Lonicera maackii, 55.3; (K) Ph. ringoniella, Malus mandshurica, NK-179-16-1A; (L) Ph. similis, Quercus dentata, 42.1; (M) Ph. ulmifoliella, 37.1. Sampling locations: (A) PK, Rakovka, 27.VII.2016; (B, D–M) ibidem, Gornotaezhnoe, 16.VII.2013 (D), 22-25.VII.2016 (B, E–M); (C) SO, Sakhalin Isl., Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 12.VII.2017. Scale bars 1 mm.

FIGURE 7. Male genitalia of Phyllonorycter spp. from the Russian Far East. (A) Phyllonorycter junoniella, genitalia slide [21-male]; (B) Ph. pastorella, host plant Salix sp., [12Pp-2016-male]; (C) Ph. populifoliella, Populus balsamifera, [NK-561- 1-male]; (D) Ph. pseudojezoniella, Acer saccharum, [20Pps-2016-male]; (E) Ph. kisoensis, Alnus hirsuta, [5Pk-2016-male]. Sampling location: (A) SO, Sakhalin Isl., 14.VII.2017; (B, D) PK, Gornotaezhnoe, MTS, 22–26.VII.2016; (C) AO, Blagoveshchensk, 27.VI.2016. Scale bars 200µm.