Four Tischeriidae species in Colombia, including a new Astrotischeria species: is it not too little for a megadiverse country?

Abstract

Until 2019, Tischeriidae, or trumpet moths, were totally unknown in Colombia. Here we review all currently available scanty data on the Colombian Tischeriidae and describe Astrotischeria recta Diškus, Mey & Stonis, sp. nov., a new species of trumpet moths from Valle de Cauca, Colombia. The new species is illustrated with photographs of the male genitalia, adults, and their habitats. In the current paper, we also briefly discuss the number of the Tischeriidae species in other Neotropical countries and provide renewed data.

Genera of Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera): a review of the global fauna, with descriptions of new taxa

“…Tischeriidae, commonly known as trumpet moths (or trumpet leafminer moths), is a relatively small lepidopteran family of leaf miners currently comprised of 186 described species globally (Stonis et al 2020b(Stonis et al , 2021a(Stonis et al , 2021c(Stonis et al , 2021d(Stonis et al , 2022a(Stonis et al , 2022bDobrynina et al 2022), including the 12 new species described here. Tischeriids are not wellknown or common in museum holdings worldwide and are probably among the least studied lepidopteran groups of the tropical or subtropical regions worldwide (Stonis et al 2020c(Stonis et al , 2020b).…”

“…It is interesting to note that two new species were described by Bernard Landry from the Galapagos (Landry & Roque-Albelo 2004), a remote world-famous archipelago. Recently, most species were discovered from the continental Central and South America Stonis & Diškus 2007Diškus & Stonis 2015;Stonis et al 2016aStonis et al , 2018aStonis et al , 2019bStonis et al , 2019cStonis et al , 2020aStonis et al , 2020bStonis et al , 2020cStonis et al , 2021bStonis et al , 2021cStonis et al , 2022aStonis et al , 2022bStonis & Solis 2020) and East and South East Asia Stonis et al 2014Stonis et al , 2021dKobayashi et al 2016;Xu et al 2017Xu et al , 2018Xu et al , 2021Kim et al 2022), tropical and subtropical Africa Mey 2010; including Madagascar (Lees & Stonis 2007). Dobrynina et al (2022) found that 37 researchers worldwide have contributed to the description of Tischeriidae species.…”