Phyllonorycter Hübner 1822

• Main Authors: Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei, Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Gracillariidae; Phyllonorycter; Lopez; Margarita; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5584294; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5584294

Phyllonorycter sp. 4 Material examined. Russia: SO, Sakhalin Island, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Gagarin Park, 46.96N, 142.75E, 69 m alt., Alnus hirsuta, 11.VII.2017, 1 larva, NK618, MK 403695, deposited in INRA. Leaf mine. The mine is similar to Ph. strigulatella and was found on the same trees. Pupation in the mine. Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Alnus hirsuta (Betulaceae). Distribution. Russia: RFE—PK. Remarks. BIN of unknown species—BOLD: ADM1303. In East Asia, eight Phyllonorycter species develop on Alnus, among which five species, besides other hosts, feed on Alnus hirsuta: Ph. hancola (Kumata), Ph. kisoensis Kumata et Park, Ph. longispinata (Kumata), Ph. maculata (Kumata), Ph. strigulatella (Zeller) (De Prins & De Prins 2018). The three other species develop on other alder in East Asia: Ph. ermani (Kumata) (host plant: Alnus maximowiczii, however the main host is Betula), Ph. fruticosella (Kuznetzov) (A. viridis), Ph. takagii (Kumata) (A. japonica). From this list of Alnus -feeding species, only Ph. strigulatella has been barcoded and it shows 3.9% genetic distance from Phyllonorycter sp. 4 (Table 2). Our specimen could be one of these four species— Ph. hancola, Ph. kisoensis, Ph. longispinata, or Ph. maculata. Published as part of Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 4652 (1) on page 31, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475