Phyllonorycter, Hübner, 1822

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 : 30

Phyllonorycter sp. 2 ( cf. malicola Kuznetzov )

Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe , forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.15E, 224 m alt., Malus mandshurica , 25.VII.2016, 1 larva, NK534 , MK 403676 , deposited in INRA.

Leaf mine. Mine similar to Ph. ringoniella . Pupation in the mine.

Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Malus mandshurica (Rosaceae) .

Distribution. Russia: RFE—PK.

Remarks. BIN of unknown species—BOLD: ADF3338. In East Asia, three Malus -feeding Phyllonorycter are known: Ph. malicola Kuznetzov , Ph. ringoniella (Matsumura) and Ph. sorbicola (Kumata) ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) . No DNA barcodes exist in BOLD for Ph. malicola Kuznetzov. DNA barcod of Phyllonorycter sp. 2 does not match the other two species. The nearest neighbor to Phyllonorycter sp. 2 is Ph. ringoniella , with minimum genetic distance 3.3% ( Table 2 ). The divergence with the Ph. sorbicola reaches 9.4% ( Table 2 ). Our specimen may possibly represent Ph. malicola that is known to develop in RFE on M. mandshurica ( Kuznetzov 1979b) .