Paraswammerdamia conspersella Yponomeutidae ...

• Main Authors: Landry, Jean-François, Nazari, Vazrick, Dewaard, Jeremy R., Mutanen, Marko, Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, Huemer, Peter, Hebert, Paul D. N.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Yponomeutidae; Paraswammerdamia; Paraswammerdamia conspersella; Canada; Havre; Jeremy; Lopez; Marko; Empetrum nigrum
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10540620; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10540620

10. Paraswammerdamia conspersella (Tengström, 1848) (Yponomeutidae) Tinea conspersella Tengström, 1848: 112. Type locality: Finland. BOLD:AAC7755 Palearctic distribution. Northern Europe and Northwestern Russia. New North American records. Canada: Québec: Îles de la Madeleine, Île Grande-Entrée, two series (30 specimens) reared from Empetrum nigrum in 1998 and 1999 from the same location (CNC); Havre-Saint-Pierre, 26 Jul 2012, 1 ♂; Parc national de l'Archipel de Mingan, 3–13 Aug 2012, 2 ♂ (CNC). Diagnosis. Superficially somewhat similar to the preceding species, with the head and dorsum of thorax with a variable mixture of whitish grey and brown; the forewing has a pale grey ground colour mottled with dark brown nearly coalescing with the medial dark-brown patch of the hind margin to form a diffuse transverse fascia; the white subapical patch is somewhat inconspicuous. The colouration varies significantly among the Quebec specimens, the majority resembling the one illustrated, but some specimens are darker, ... : Published as part of Landry, Jean-François, Nazari, Vazrick, Dewaard, Jeremy R., Mutanen, Marko, Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, Huemer, Peter & Hebert, Paul D. N., 2013, Shared but overlooked: 30 species of Holarctic Microlepidoptera revealed by DNA barcodes and morphology, pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 3749 (1) on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3749.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5271857 ...