Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella (Hubner 1817)
- Dataset
- Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Gracillariidae
- genus
- Phyllonorycter
- species
- Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella
description
(Figs 4 M, 8 D) Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, MTS, 43.69 N, 132.15 E, 152 m alt., 22. VII. 2016, 1 male (collected by sweep netting from Aesculus hippocastanum), 37.1 / [15 Pu- 2016 - male] (Figs 4 M, 8 D); SO, Sakhalin Island, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Gagarin Park, 46.96 N, 142.75 E, 69 m alt., Betula platyphylla, 11. VII. 2017, 1 female (reared from leaf mine), NK- 66 - 17 - 1 / [17 - female], deposited in SIF. Leaf mine. The mine is indistinguishable from the one of Ph. ermani on Betula platyphylla (Fig. 12 B). Pupation in the mine. Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Betula: B. nigra, B. papyrifera, B. pendula, B. platyphylla, B. pubescens (Betulaceae) (De Prins & De Prins 2018). Distribution. Russia: RFE — AO, KK, PK, SO (Kuril Islands) (Baryshnikova & Dubatolov, 2007; Baryshnikova 2016), SO (Sakhalin Island) (new record), Siberia, European part (Baryshnikova 2008; Kirichenko et al. 2017 a); Japan (Kumata 1963), Kazakhstan (Kuznetsov & Baryshnikova 1998), Europe (De Prins & De Prins 2018).