Acalyptris auratilis Puplesis & Diškus, 2003

Stonis, Jonas R., Remeikis, Andrius, Diškus, Arūnas & Navickaitė, Asta, 2020, Documenting new and little known leaf-mining Nepticulidae from middle and southwestern areas of the Asian continent, Zootaxa 4881 (3), pp. 401-452 : 425

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7AAE442F-779B-40C6-ABD9-04BCB3B4777B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4333325

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A53B87E2-FFD6-F67C-FF32-FD77FE3F81DA

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Plazi

scientific name

Acalyptris auratilis Puplesis & Diškus, 2003
status

 

Acalyptris auratilis Puplesis & Diškus, 2003 View in CoL

( Figs 84 View FIGURES 81–86 , 215–223 View FIGURES 215–223 )

Acalyptris auratilis Puplesis & Diškus, 2003: 219 View in CoL , 220.

Material examined. 3 ♂ (holotype and paratypes), Nepal, 70 km W of Kathmandu, Baikunthapuri , subtropical montane forest, 19, 20.iv.1995, R . Puplesis, genitalia slide nos AD0378 (holotype), AD0379 (paratype) ( ZIN, also see Remarks) ; 1 ♂, India, Uttarakhand, Dehradun Distr., Rishikesh , 30°08’13”N, 78°19’55”E, elevation ca. 450 m, at light, 09.viii.2010, A. Šimkevičiūtė, genitalia slide no. AG127 ( ZIN) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. This species belongs to the Acalyptris platani species group. Acalyptris auratilis is the most similar and probably closely related to the Himalayan A. melanospila ( Meyrick, 1934) , A. nigripexus Puplesis & Diškus, 2003 , and A. brunipexus sp. nov. (described above).

Externally, males of A. auratilis differ from similar species of the A. platani group in the absence of androconia ( Fig. 84 View FIGURES 81–86 ) ( A. melanospila has a basal patch of white androconia, A. nigripexus is with distinctly black androconia, and A. brunipexus possesses pale brown androconia of the hindwing).

Internally, in the male genitalia, the combination of unique-shaped ventral carinae ( Figs 221, 222 View FIGURES 215–223 ), a large dor-sal lobe of phallus ( Fig. 217 View FIGURES 215–223 ), a long, slender pseuduncus ( Fig. 220 View FIGURES 215–223 ), small, scale-like cornuti in the phallus ( Figs 217, 223 View FIGURES 215–223 ), and the unique shape of the proximal lobe of vinculum ( Figs 215, 219 View FIGURES 215–223 ) distinguishes this species from the most similar A. melanospila , A. nigripexus , and A. brunipexus .

Male ( Fig. 84 View FIGURES 81–86 ). Forewing length 2.0– 2.1 mm; wingspan 4.4–4.6 mm (n = 4). Described and illustrated by Puplesis & Diškus, 2003: 219, 220: figs 424, 480–483, 488, 491, 494.

Female. Unknown.

Bionomics. Host plant is unknown. Adults were collected at light in April and August. Otherwise, biology is unknown.

Distribution. Known from the subtropical forest of the western Himalaya: 70 km W of Kathmandu ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–6 : cHi) and Uttarakhand, Rishikesh ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–6 : wHi) (new distribution).

Remarks. We provide the first photographic documentation of the male genitalia ( Figs 217–221, 223 View FIGURES 215–223 ), for the first time report on new distribution of the species in India ( Figs 215, 216 View FIGURES 215–223 ). Additionally, the holotype and two paratypes, earlier deposited at LEU (formerly abbreviated as VPU) will be transferred to ZIN (see Material examined) because of the LEU closure.

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

ZIN

Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nepticulidae

Genus

Acalyptris

Loc

Acalyptris auratilis Puplesis & Diškus, 2003

Stonis, Jonas R., Remeikis, Andrius, Diškus, Arūnas & Navickaitė, Asta 2020
2020
Loc

Acalyptris auratilis Puplesis & Diškus, 2003: 219

Puplesis, R. & Diskus, A. 2003: 219
2003
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