Documenting trumpet leaf-miner moths (Tischeriidae): new Neotropical Coptotriche and Astrotischeria species, with notes on Sapindaceae as a host-plant family
Author
Stonis, Jonas R.
Nature Research Centre and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius 08412, Lithuania.
Author
Diškus, Arūnas
0000-0003-0106-5546
Nature Research Centre and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius 08412, Lithuania. & diskus. biotaxonomy @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0106 - 5546
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Author
Remeikis, Andrius
0000-0002-9310-1112
Nature Research Centre and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius 08412, Lithuania. & remeikis. andrew @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9310 - 1112
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Author
Fernández-Alonso, José L.
0000-0002-1701-480X
Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC, Claudio Moyano 1, Madrid 28014, Spain. & jlfernandeza @ rjb. csic. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1701 - 480 X
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Author
Baryshnikova, Svetlana V.
0000-0002-2549-4911
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg, Russia. & parornix @ zin. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2549 - 4911
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Author
Solis, M. Alma
0000-0001-6379-1004
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, US Department of Agriculture, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 20013 - 7012, USA. & alma. solis @ usda. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6379 - 1004
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-30
5047
3
300
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5047.3.4
1175-5326
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65A22984-EBA7-4788-B044-B23BC59939D4
Coptotriche serjaniphaga
Remeikis & Stonis
,
sp. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
71EE7F8A-D544-41E7-829E-1D75743783E2
(
Figs. 11–18
)
Type material
.
Holotype
:
♂
,
PERÚ
, Dept.
Apurímac
,
Curahuasi
, 13°32ꞌ02ꞌꞌS, 72°42ꞌ59ꞌꞌW, ca.
2700 m
, mining larva
25.v.2018
, leg.
Arotaype-Puma
(
NRC
).
Diagnosis.
Externally, this new species is similar to the Peruvian
C. carmencita
Stonis & Diškus
described and illustrated in
Stonis
et al
. 2019a
: figs. 23, 24, 57–62, 115–120). However,
C. serjaniphaga
sp. nov.
is a significantly larger moth,
9 mm
in wingspan (
C. carmencita
,
5.6–5.8 mm
).
Coptotriche serjaniphaga
sp. nov.
differs in the dark golden ochre forewing, thorax, and frontal tuft (
C. carmencita
is a pale, entirely ochreous yellowish moth). In
C. serjaniphaga
,
dark scales
form two
small, irregular, subapical spots; the tornal spot (
Fig. 15
) is distinctive (in
C. carmencita
,
forewing is irregularly speckled with dark scales which are especially abundant along the tornal margin of forewing).
The host-plant genus
Serjania
Mill.
(possibly
S. squarrosa
Radlk.
) is distinctive (see Discussion). Additionally,
C.
serjaniphaga
sp. nov.
has been discovered in temperate areas of the Peruvian Andes and
C. carmencita
occurs in the subtropical, humid habitats of the Peruvian “selva alta” which seems to be a transitional corridor between the montane regions and tropical lowlands, or the Amazonian selva or “selva baja”.
Male
(
Figs. 14, 15
). Forewing length
4.25 mm
; wingspan 9.0 mm (n = 1).
Head
. Frons yellowish ochre; palpi golden cream; pecten brownish cream; frontal tuft glossy golden cream, laterally golden ochre; collar golden ochre; antenna distinctly longer than one half the length of forewing; flagellum pale grey, golden glossy, with relatively short, very fine, inconspicuous sensilla.
FIGURES 1–6.
Bionomics of
Astrotischeria mystica
Diškus & Stonis
,
sp. nov.
1–3, host plant
Verbesina
L. (possibly
V. plowmanii
Sagást.
) (
Asteraceae
), Urubamba Province, Peru, 2180 m; 4–6, leaf mines
FIGURES 7–10.
Bionomics of new
Astrotischeria
species. 7
, 8, leaf mines of
A. yungasi
Diškus & Stonis
,
sp. nov.
; 9,
Oyedaea
DC.
, possibly
O. boliviana
(Lam.) King & Rob. (Asteraceae)
, a host plant of
A. yungasi
sp. nov.
, Bolivia, Nor Yungas Province, 1660 m; 10, a leaf mine of
A. parapallens
Diškus & Stonis
,
sp. nov.
on
Baccharis
sp.
, possibly
B. latifolia
(Ruiz & Pav.) Pers. (Asteraceae)
, Ayacucho, Peru, 2510 m
FIGURES 11–18.
Astrotischeria serjaniphaga
Remeikis & Stonis
,
sp. nov.
11–13, leaf mines on
Serjania
Mill.
, possibly
S. squarrosa
Radlk. (Sapindaceae)
, Curahuasi, Apurímac Department, central Peru, at an elevation of about 2700 m; 14, 15, male adult, holotype; 16–18 pupal exuviae (NRC)
Thorax.
Tegula, thorax, and forewing concolorous, glossy, dark golden ochre, sparsely speckled with dark greybrown scales; forewing with two small, irregular, subapical spots; the tornal spot is indistinctive (
Fig. 15
); fringe ochre, with incomplete and inconspicuous fringe line comprised of dark brown scales; forewing underside grey, golden glossy, with weak purple iridescence, without spots or androconia. Hindwing pale grey to grey on upper side and underside, with weak purple iridescence, without androconia; fringe grey, ochre glossy. Legs pale yellow-ochre, dark grey to blackish grey on upper side. Abdomen lost.
Female.
Unknown.
DNA barcode.
We barcoded hind legs of the
holotype
. The aligned length of the dataset is 674 bp: AA- CATTATATTTTATTTTTGGTATGTGAGCAGGTATAGTAGGAACATCATTAAGATTATTAATTCGAG- CAGAATTAGGAACTGCAGGATCCTTAATTGGAGATGATCAAATTTATAACACTATTGTTACAGCCCAT-
GC
TTTTATTATAATTTTTTTTATA G
TTAT GCC AATTATAATT GG
A
GG ATTT GG TAATT
G
ATTA
G TTCCATTAATATTAGGTGCCCCTGATATAGCATTCCCCCGTCTTAATAATATAAGATTTTGATTAT- TACCTCCATCTTTATTACTTTTAATTTCCAGAAGAATTGTAGAAAATGGAGCAGGAACTGGATGAA- CAGTATACCCCCCACTTTCATCAAATATTGCCCATACAGGAAGATCAGTAGATCTTGCTATTTTTTCC CTTCATTTAGCTGGAATTTCTTCAATTTTAGGAGCTATTAATTTTATTACTACAATAATTAATATAC- GATCACAAGGAATATCATTTGATCAAATACCTTTATTCGTATGAGCAGTTGCAATTACAACAGTAT- TATTATTATTATCTTTACCTGTTTTAGCTGGTGCTATTACAATATTATTAACAGATCGTAATTTAAA- CACATCTTTTTTTGATCCTGCTGGAGGAGGAGACCCTATTTTATATCAACATTTATTTTGATTTTTTGGT-
CATC
. Sequence is available in GenBank under voucher/sample ID
OK017167
.
Bionomics
(
Figs. 11–13, 16–18
). Host plant is
Serjania
Mill.
, possibly
S. squarrosa
Radlk. (Sapindaceae)
. Larvae mine leaves in May. The blotch mine (
Figs. 11–13
) is irregular, white at the beginning, cream, transparent, with no or very little frass further along; fully developed mines usually bend (distort) the mined leaf (
Fig. 11
). Pupation inside the leaf mine. Adults fly in June.
Distribution
. The species is known from the single locality, Curahuasi, Dept.
Apurímac
, central
Peru
, at an elevation of about
2700 m
.
Etymology
. The species is named after the host-plant genus
Serjania
,
Sapindaceae
, a novel host-plant taxon for the
Tischeriidae
, combined with the Ancient Greek
phago
(eater, feeder).
Remarks.
Unpublished molecular data of mtDNA COI sequences provide strong support for this new species. In our unpublished molecular analysis of
Tischeriidae
,
C. serjaniphaga
sp. nov.
always appeared as a very distinct, separate clade, close but not fully matching with
Coptotriche
. A phylogenetic tree will be published separately with a molecular analysis of
Tischeriidae
(Stonis
et al.
in prep.).