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- Title
Do leaf-mining Nepticulidae occur in the natural but so threatened Andean Polylepis forests?
- Authors
Stonis, Jonas R.; Diškus, Arūnas; Remeikis, Andrius; Karsholt, Ole
- Abstract
Despite the fact that Polylepis forests constitute the natural but threatened vegetation in much of the high Andes and are very important for their ecological functions, no leaf-mining Nepticulidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea) associated with Polylepis Ruiz & Pav. as a host-plant have been recorded previously. In this paper, for the first time, we report on four discoveries of Polylepis-feeding Nepticulidae species in Ecuador and Peru. From the high Andes of Peru, we describe a new species Stigmella polylepiella Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., whose larvae throughout all instars are leaf-miners in leaves of Polylepis racemosa Ruiz & Pav. and spin a unique shaped cocoon inside the leaf-mine. We also provide illustrations and short descriptions of male genitalia and leaf-mines of two other new Stigmella Schrank species, whose larvae are leaf-miners on Polylepis pauta Hieron. in Ecuador; these two taxa are documented but left unnamed because they are described from dissected developed pupae, not emerged adults. Additionally, we document leaf-mines of an unknown Nepticulidae taxon associated with Polylepis racemosa in the Peruvian Andes.
- Subjects
POLYLEPIS; FORESTS &; forestry; NEPTICULIDAE; LEAFMINERS; COCOONS
- Publication
Biologija, 2016, Vol 62, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
1392-0146
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6001/biologija.v62i2.3334