A New Species of Niditinea (Tineidae: Tineinae) with a Preference for Bird Nests, and the Known Larval Habitats of the Species in the United States

Metz, Mark A.; Davis, Donald R.; Davis, Mignon M.

doi:10.4289/0013-8797.120.1.153

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“…Forewing Subcostal Tymbals are present in 11 of 38 species of Tinea as well as one of two Praeacedes and four of five Niditinea species examined, including the newly discovered species N. sabroskyi (Metz et al, 2018). FSTs in the Tineinae vary in relative size, with the more conspicuous examples being found in Tinea steueri (Robinson, 1979), whereas, species such as Tinea dubiella possess much smaller structures.…”

Section: Phylogenetic Spread Of Ats In the Tineidaementioning

confidence: 97%

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Convergent Evolution of Wingbeat-Powered Anti-Bat Ultrasound in the Microlepidoptera

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Bats and moths provide a textbook example of predator-prey evolutionary arms races, demonstrating adaptations, and counter adaptations on both sides. The evolutionary responses of moths to the biosonar-led hunting strategies of insectivorous bats include convergently evolved hearing structures tuned to detect bat echolocation frequencies. These allow many moths to detect hunting bats and manoeuvre to safety, or in the case of some taxa, respond by emitting sounds which startle bats, jam their biosonar, and/or warn them of distastefulness. Until now, research has focused on the larger macrolepidoptera, but the recent discovery of wingbeat-powered anti-bat sounds in a genus of deaf microlepidoptera (Yponomeuta), suggests that the speciose but understudied microlepidoptera possess further and more widespread anti-bat defences. Here we demonstrate that wingbeat-powered ultrasound production, likely providing an anti-bat function, appears to indeed be spread widely in the microlepidoptera; showing that acoustically active structures (aeroelastic tymbals, ATs) have evolved in at least three, and likely four different regions of the wing. Two of these tymbals are found in multiple microlepidopteran superfamilies, and remarkably, three were found in a single subfamily. We document and characterise sound production from four microlepidopteran taxa previously considered silent. Our findings demonstrate that the microlepidoptera contribute their own unwritten chapters to the textbook bat-moth coevolutionary arms race.

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Section: Phylogenetic Spread Of Ats In the Tineidaementioning

confidence: 97%

“…In the case of the genus Chrypsithyris (four species) images and species descriptions were used from Xiao and Li (2005). Images for Niditinea sabroskyi were used from (Metz et al, 2018).…”

Section: Candidate Ats In the Tineidaementioning

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Convergent Evolution of Wingbeat-Powered Anti-Bat Ultrasound in the Microlepidoptera

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“…Few species consume aerial parts of plants and food items are very diverse: decaying plant material, fungi (aerial part and mycelium), lichens, and even animal tissues such as wool, horns, etc. [137][138][139].…”

Section: Caterpillarsmentioning

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“…Tineidae: Several species of this large family pupate in litter or silk tunnels dug in the soil [137][138][139].…”

Section: Chrysalidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, the main question is whether litter species are not ultimately strict consumers of fungal mycelium. Among the subdivisions whose food is probably more mycelium-based than litter-based are: Micropterigidae [132]; Mnesarchaeidae [133]; Paleosetidae [134]; Tineidae [137][138][139]. There do not appear to be any caterpillars with modified burrowing legs, so most species found in the soil are only found in the upper soft soil horizons.…”

Section: Caterpillarsmentioning

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“Lepidoptera Flies”, but Not Always…Interactions of Caterpillars and Chrysalis with Soil

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Lepidoptera, an order of insects traditionally linked to the aerial habitat, are much more diverse in their living environment than the clichéd image we may have of them. The imago stage, which is the most visible in these insects, is not the one that has the most interaction with the environment (usually caterpillars) nor the one that lasts the longest (very often chrysalises). These two stages are often directly related to litter and soil, although only the interaction at the pupal stage seems to follow a phylogenetic logic with two independent evolutionary events for the preference with soil: Use of litter and the upper “O” horizon as protection against predation for the evolutionarily oldest Lepidoptera families, pupation at greater depths (up to 60 centimetres in extreme cases) for the most derived Lepidoptera families; this probably to take advantage of the thermal and moisture buffer provided by the soil. An estimate suggests that about 25% of lepidopteran species worldwide have more or less obligatory interactions with soil.

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Review of the keratophagous genus Niditinea Petersen, 1957 (Lepidoptera, Tineidae) from Korea, with two newly recorded species

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Ahn

Bayarsaikhan

et al. 2020

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity

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A New Species of Niditinea (Tineidae: Tineinae) with a Preference for Bird Nests, and the Known Larval Habitats of the Species in the United States

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Convergent Evolution of Wingbeat-Powered Anti-Bat Ultrasound in the Microlepidoptera

Convergent Evolution of Wingbeat-Powered Anti-Bat Ultrasound in the Microlepidoptera

“Lepidoptera Flies”, but Not Always…Interactions of Caterpillars and Chrysalis with Soil

Review of the keratophagous genus Niditinea Petersen, 1957 (Lepidoptera, Tineidae) from Korea, with two newly recorded species

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