A new species of Leurocephala Davis & Mc Kay (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae) from the Azapa Valley, northern Chilean Atacama Desert, with notes on life-history

Description, natural history and genetic variation ofCaloptilia guacanivorasp. nov. Vargas‐Ortiz & Vargas (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Atacama Desert, Chile

“…Brito et al 2012, Brito et al 2013, Brito et al 2017Lees et al 2014;Kirichenko et al 2015Kirichenko et al , 2017Pereira et al 2017). Brito et al 2012, Brito et al 2013, Brito et al 2017Lees et al 2014;Kirichenko et al 2015Kirichenko et al , 2017Pereira et al 2017).…”

“…Firstly, the number of species actually present in this biogeographic region is underestimated for several reasons; one of which is poor sampling in many habitats Lees et al 2014). Arévalo-Maldonado 2014; Brito et al 2017;Moreira et al 2018;Mundaca et al 2013;Pereira et al 2017;Vargas et al 2013). Data on genitalia morphology, geographical ranges, host plants and immature stages remain unknown for many of them De Prins et al 2016).…”

“…Surveys for larvae of the Gracillariidae on native Neotropical plants are useful for the discovery of new species and improvement of knowledge about the morphology, geographical range and natural history of previously described species (e.g. Arévalo-Maldonado 2014; Brito et al 2017;Moreira et al 2018;Mundaca et al 2013;Pereira et al 2017;Vargas et al 2013).…”

Adenogasteria leguminivora Davis & Vargas gen. et sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): a new seed‐feeding micromoth associated with Fabaceae in Peru and Chile

“…Brito et al (2016) estimated that the diversity of the Neotropical Gracillariidae could be about 20 times greater than currently known, a suggestion that has been partially corroborated by recent additions, mainly based on findings undertaken in surveys for mines on native plants in little-studied Neotropical environments (e.g. Pereira et al 2017;Fochezato et al 2018;Moreira et al 2018;Vargas-Ortiz et al 2019).…”

“…To construct the COI tree, we included all sequences available from representative genera of the subfamily Ornixolinae (sensu Kawahara et al 2017). The final dataset of COI sequences included eight new sequences of Adenogasteria and 17 sequences from the genera Cactivalva Moreira & Vargas, 2017, Chileoptila Vargas & Landry, 2005, Conopobathra Vári, 1961, Conopomorpha Meyrick, 1885, Cuphodes Meyrick, 1897, Cyphosticha Meyrick, 1907, Diphtheroptila Vári, 1961, Epicephala Meyrick, 1880, Leurocephala Davis & Mc Kay, 2011, Liocrobyla Meyrick, 1916, Neurobathra Ely, 1918, Ornixola Kuznetzov, 1979, Parectopa Clemens, 1860, Philodoria Walsingham, 1907, Spinivalva Moreira & Vargas, 2013and Stomphastis Meyrick, 1912, downloaded from GenBank (Table 1). Cameraria niphonica Kumata, 1963 (Lithocolletinae) was used as the proximal outgroup according to the phylogeny proposed by Kawahara et al (2017).…”