Aspilanta "Vitis1_USA"

Nieukerken, Erik J. van & Eiseman, Charles S., 2020, Splitting the leafmining shield-bearer moth genus Antispila Huebner (Lepidoptera, Heliozelidae): North American species with reduced venation placed in Aspilanta new genus, with a review of heliozelid morphology, ZooKeys 957, pp. 105-161 : 105

Aspilanta "Vitis1_USA"

Antispila Vitis1; van Nieukerken et al. 2012: 56, 77.

Differential diagnosis.

Externally not distinguishable from A. oinophylla or A. ampelopsifoliella . Genitalia and leafmines not yet examined.

Host plants.

Vitaceae : Vitis aestivalis , Vitis spec.

Leafmine.

Not examined.

Life history.

Larvae in June and July, single adult reared in July. Possibly bivoltine.

Distribution.

USA: Connecticut, Florida.

Barcode.

BIN: BOLD:ABA2832, average/max. distance 0.35% (n = 2), distance to NN 9.72% (BIN: BOLD:AEA4069, unknown, not a public record).

Material.

See van Nieukerken et al. (2012).