Stigmella kristenseni

Stonis, Jonas R., Diškus, Arūnas, Remeikis, Andrius, Karsholt, Ole & Torres, Nixon Cumbicus, 2017, Illustrated review of the leaf-mining Nepticulidae of the central Andes (Peru and Bolivia), Zootaxa 4257 (1), pp. 1-70 : 49

The Stigmella kristenseni group (designated here) (species 39)

Diagnostics ( Fig. 37 ): forewing speckled, without fascia. In male genitalia, phallus with widening and spined apically; valva with one apical processes, wide inner lobe and spined inner process; uncus long and slender, with four caudal papillae; gnathos with two very long caudal processes and elaborated plate; ventral plate of vinculum with a rod-like thickening. Currently one species in the group known from the high-Andean Peru. Trophic relationships unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 37. Diagnostics of the central Andean Stigmella.