New and little known Coptotriche and Tischeria species (Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae) from Primorskiy Kray, Russian Far East

Abstract

The paper provides data on two new and two little known Coptotriche Walsingham and Tischeria Zeller species from Primorskiy Kray (=Primorskiy Territory), Russian Far East: Coptotriche minuta Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., Tischeria unca Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov. are described, T. decidua siorkionla Kozlov and T. sichotensis Ermolaev are redescribed. Currently, together with the described new species, the fauna of Tischeridae of Far Eastern Russia comprises three Coptotriche species and seven Tischeria species. A neotype, replacing the missing type series of T. sichotensis, is designated here. For the first time all four species treated from Russian Far East are illustrated with photographs of the adults and genitalia (T. sichotensis also with photographs of the leaf-mines).

First report on Paratischeria from Asia (Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae)

“…During the recent years, literature on Tischeriidae was supplemented with the following publications: Landry & Roque-Albelo 2004; Puplesis et al 2004;Mey 2004Mey , 2010Diškus 2005;Puplesis & Diškus 2005;Diškus & Stonis 2006, 2012, 2015Stonis & Diškus 2007; Lees & Stonis 2007;Stonis et al , 2014Stonis et al , 2016Stonis et al , 2017Huang & Tan 2009;van Nieukerken 2010;Navickaitė et al 2011;Diškus et al, 2014;and Kobayashi et al, 2016. For the review of older publications, see Diškus & Puplesis (2003a).…”

Urticaceae-feeders from the family Tischeriidae: descriptions of two new species and new genus Paratischeria gen. nov.

“…The phallus was removed and mounted in Euparal separately but on the same genitalia slide. Abdominal pelts and female genitalia were stained with Chlorazol Black (Direct Black 38/Azo Black) (for a detailed method's description see Stonis et al, 2014).…”

“…67); (4) strongly narrowed phallus (Figs. 8,33,45), usually bifurcated or with spines at apex; (5) dark, short, strongly thickened, stout peg setae on female ovipositor (usually visible even without dissection) (Fig. 29); (6) specific rod-like or plate-like projections of modified 8th and 9th sternites in female genitalia collectively referred as prela (Fig.…”

A review of the Japanese species of the family Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera)

“…Until now, 115 tischeriid species have been described globally. Nearly eleven plant families have been reported as their hosts, among which Rosaceae , Fagaceae and Asteraceae are major groups ( Puplesis and Diškus 2003 ; Stonis et al 2014 ). Several species of Tischeriidae have recently been added to the Eastern Palaearctic fauna, including two species from China ( Huang and Tan 2009 ) and two new species from the Russian Far East ( Stonis et al 2014 ).…”