Materials on the Lepidoptera fauna of “Ecoportal de Piedra” National Park (Jujuy Province, North-Western Argentina). Part I. Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

Abstract

Basing on the materials from Russian entomological expedition to Jujuy Province, North-Western Argentina, the participants of which were working in Ecoportal de Piedra National Park, 22 Pterophoridae species have been revealed, two of which, Emmelina doroshkini Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich sp. n. and E. reshetnikovi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich sp. n., turned to be new to Science. Six more species, Bipunctiphorus nigroapicalis (Landry & Gielis, 1992), Stenoptilodes brevipennis (Zeller, 1874), S. taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875), Lioptilodes cuzcoicus Gielis, 1996, Adaina zephyria Barnes & Lindsey, 1921, and Hellinsia mauleicus (Gielis, 1991) have been indicated for Argentina for the first time, and eleven more species, Postplatyptilia flinti Gielis, 1991, Stenoptilodes sematodactyla (Berg, 1885), Lioptilodes aguilaicus Gielis, 1991, Oidaematophorus pseudotrachyphloeus Gielis, 2011, Singularia carabayus (Arenberger, 1990), Hellinsia angulofuscus (Gielis, 1991), H. chalupi Gielis, 2013, H. grandaevus (Meyrick, 1931), and H. tacanasensis Gielis, 2013 have been indicated for Jujuy Province for the first time. One species of the genus Singularia has not been identified on a unique female.

Plume moths (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) reared from the Chilean endemic Stevia philippiana (Asteraceae)

“…The knowledge of the Neotropical fauna of plume moths has significantly improved in the last thirty years ( Gielis 1991 , Gielis 2006 , Gielis 2011 ) and recent contributions suggest that many environments of this region harbour additional undiscovered species ( Ustjuzhanin et al 2021a , Ustjuzhanin et al 2021b , Ustjuzhanin et al 2021c ). As shown in several studies, surveys for adults and immature stages are fundamental to continue the improvement of the understanding of systematics, geographic ranges and host plant use of the plume moths of a given geographic area ( Landry and Gielis 1992 , Landry 1993 , Landry et al 2004 , Matthews et al 2012 , Matthews et al 2019 ).…”

“…Species of Oidaematophorus are recognised by fore-wing venation with R1 absent, R2, R3, R4 and R5 separate, Cu1 from the posterior angle of the discal cell and Cu2 from the discal cell, mid-leg with scale bristles at base of spur pairs and female genitalia with bell- or widened funnel-shaped antrum ( Gielis 2011 ). Ten described species of Oidaematophorus occur in the Neotropical Region ( Gielis 2011 , Gielis 2014 , Hernández et al 2014 , Matthews et al 2019 , Ustjuzhanin et al 2021b ), only one of which, O. pseudotrachyphloeus Gielis, 2011, is known from Chile ( Vargas 2021 ).…”