Stigmella peruanica Puplesis & Robinson, 2000

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 : 34-35

23. Stigmella peruanica Puplesis & Robinson, 2000

( Figs 2 , 9 , 29 , 33 , 37 )

Stigmella peruanica Puplesis & Robinson, 2000: 27 –28, figs. 19, 104, 105.

Material examined. 1 ♂ (holotype), PERU, Dept. Puno, 5 km E of Limbani, 3000 m, 28.iii.1987, O. Karsholt, genitalia slide no. Diškus 189 ( ZMUC).

Diagnosis. Belongs to the S. marmorea group. The combination of three golden shiny fasciae on the forewing, short lobes of vinculum, bilobed uncus with each lobe bearing two-three papillae, and numerous large cornuti on the vesica distinguishes S. peruanica from all other Stigmella species.

Male ( Fig. 33 ). Described in Puplesis & Robinson 2000: 27–28, fig. 19. Forewing length about 2.1 mm; wingspan about 4.6 mm.

Female. Unknown.

Male genitalia. Illustrated in Puplesis & Robinson 2000: 104, 105.

Bionomics. Adults fly in March. Otherwise biology unknown.

Distribution ( Fig. 9 ). This species occurs in the Peruvian Andes ( Peru: Puno Departamento) at altitudes about 3000 m ( Fig. 29 ).

Figures

FIGURE 33. Adults of the central Andean Nepticulidae.

FIGURE 37. Diagnostics of the central Andean Stigmella.

FIGURES 1 – 8. Distribution of the central Andean Nepticulidae. 1, high-Andean species recorded at altitudes above 3700 m (after Stonis et al. 2016 d); 2, species recorded at altitudes below 3700 m; 3 – 8, some collecting areas in the Peruvian Andes.

FIGURES 9 – 11. Distribution of the central Andean Nepticulidae. 9, species recorded at altitudes below 3700 m; 10, 11, some collecting areas in Peru. * — Stigmella epicosma Meyrick is also known from Arica Province, northern Chile (Vargas 2011); ** – S. inca sp. nov. is also discovered in southern Ecuador.

FIGURES 29 – 31. Updated distribution of Stigmella hamata Puplesis & Robinson. 29, 31, habitats; 30, distribution map.