Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-q99xh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-28T18:52:42.482Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

New Neotropical Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from the western Amazonian rainforest and the Andes of Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2002

RIMANTAS PUPLESIS ,
ARŪNAS DIšKUS  and
GADEN S. ROBINSON
RIMANTAS PUPLESIS
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Vilnius Pedagogical University, 39, Studentu str., Vilnius 2004 LT, Lithuania
ARŪNAS DIšKUS
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Vilnius Pedagogical University, 39, Studentu str., Vilnius 2004 LT, Lithuania
GADEN S. ROBINSON
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Get access

Abstract

Synopsis 19

Introduction 19

Material and methods 20

Abbreviations of institutions 20

Acknowledgements 21

Descriptions of new species 21

Enteucha Meyrick 21

Stigmella Schrank 23

Fomoria Beirne 26

Acalyptris Meyrick 27

References 34

Index 34

Fieldwork in 2000–2001 in the upper Amazon basin and the Andes (Ecuador) has yielded 16 new species of Nepticulidae, described here. Four genera are represented: Enteucha Meyrick (two species: E. acuta, E. guajavae), Stigmella Schrank (four species: S. montanotropica, S. nubimontana, S. rubeta, S. austroamericana), Fomoria Beirne (two species: F. repanda, F. tabulosa) and Acalyptris Meyrick (8 species: A. ecuadoriana, A. onorei, A. basihastatus, A. pseudohastatus, A. articulosus, A. rotundus, A. amazonius, A. insolentis); the authors of all new taxa are Puplesis & Diškus. Larvae have been reared from three genera of different plant families: Psidium (Myrtaceae), Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) and Rubus (Rosaceae). The adult moths of all 16 species treated are illustrated in black and white, with line drawings of genitalia and, for four species, drawings of leaf-mines.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Entomology Series , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , 27 June 2002 , pp. 19 - 58
Copyright
© The Natural History Museum, 2002

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)