Stigmella lobata

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 : 30

The Stigmella lobata group (designated here) (species 17)

Diagnostics ( Fig. 37 ): forewing very glossy, unicolorous (without fascia). In male genitalia, phallus with few stout spine-like cornuti; valva with long apical process and angular inner lobe; uncus bilobed; gnathos with one caudal processes and very slender plate; transtilla without sublateral processes; vinculum small. Currently the group comprises of single high-Andean species— Stigmella lobata from Peru. Host-plant unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 37. Diagnostics of the central Andean Stigmella.