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Issue: Vol. 4691 No. 1: 29 Oct. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.1.1
Page range: 1–32
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Diagnostics of new species of Neotropical Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera), with the first record of Coptotriche Walshingham from South America

Nature Research Centre and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius 08412, Lithuania. Vytautas Magnus University, K. Donelaičio St. 58, Kaunas 44248, Lithuania.
Nature Research Centre and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius 08412, Lithuania. Vytautas Magnus University, K. Donelaičio St. 58, Kaunas 44248, Lithuania.
Nature Research Centre and Baltic-American Biotaxonomy Institute, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius 08412, Lithuania.
División Plantas Vasculares, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina.
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto s/n, Loja, Ecuador.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
DAR Peru, Derecho Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Jirón Huáscar 1415, Jesús Maria, Lima, Perú.
Lepidoptera Astrotischeria Astrotischeria ochrimaculosa Coptotriche Neotropics taxonomy trumpet leafminer moths

Abstract

We describe seven new Neotropical species of Tischeriidae: Astrotischeria dondavisi Stonis & Diškus, sp. nov., A. bacchariphaga Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., A. guatemalica Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., A. sanjosei Stonis & Diškus, sp. nov., A. truncata Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., Coptotriche parvisacculata Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov. and C. carmencita Stonis & Diškus, sp. nov. We report the discovery of Coptotriche Walsingham in South America and provide the following new host-plant records for the Neotropical Tischeriidae: Terminalia australis Cambess. (Combretaceae), Baccharis latifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers., and B. emarginata (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers. (Asteraceae). We update the biology of Astrotischeria ochrimaculosa Diškus, Stonis & Vargas with the discovery that Wissadula (Malvaceae) is a new, verified host plant. The new species are illustrated with photographs of the adults, male and, if available, female genitalia, and the leaf mines. We expect broader distributions of tisheriid species in South America inferred from known host-plant distributions.

 

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